EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 and the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015.
The purpose of these amendments is to ensure where, in response to a specific request made by their GP, patients provide information about their ethnicity, that information is recorded in their medical records. It also sets out the purposes for which that information may be processed.
A full impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.