title: Access to medical reports.
abstract: This article explores what rights persons other than the patient have to access health records which come under the Data Protection Act and other statutory provisions. These other persons could include the relatives of a patient, the parents of a child and those concerned with the estate of a deceased person. In addition there are other rights of disclosure recognized by the common law and these will be considered in a later article.
authors.affiliation: University of Glamorgan.
authors.forename: Bridgit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dimond
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D033283:Patient Access to Records / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom