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Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security: Working Party on Confidentiality of Public Health, Social Services and Social Security Records: Registered Files (INF Series)
| Reference: | BN 102 |
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| Title: | Department of Health and Social Security: Working Party on Confidentiality of Public Health, Social Services and Social Security Records: Registered Files (INF Series) |
| Description: |
Registered file series concerning the Working party on Confidentiality of Personal Health, Social Services and Social Security Records. The files contain papers and correspondence concerning the confidentiality of personal records for medical research and considers the feasibility of the Medical Records Linkage as piloted in Oxford. |
| Date: | 1965 - 1984 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | INF file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988 |
| Physical description: | 8 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2003 Department for Work and Pensions |
| Selection and destruction information: | The files were selected as they show the development of a policy about disclosure of personal information (PRO acquisitions policy 2.2.1.5) |
| Accruals: | Series is not accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Department of Health and Social Security followed the 1911 principle in connection with National Health Insurance Scheme that information held is treated as confidential unless the person concerned consents to disclosure, except where this is either in the individual's or the public's interest. To ensure this practice was observed the working party was established to review policy and possible breaches of the code. |
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