NATIONAL CANCER REGISTER
- Session: 2000-01
- Date tabled: 20.12.2000
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
That this House regrets that the General Medical Council has issued guidance to doctors that they should no longer pass on names to the National Cancer Register but supports the Science and Technology Select Committee's recommendation that the information relating to cancer sufferers be excluded for the requirements of the Data Protection Act and that names should be allowed to be passed on to the National Register, recognising that this information is vital for the national fight against cancer.
Amendment 138A1 - NATIONAL CANCER REGISTER;Amdt. line 4:
- Session: 2000-01
- Date tabled: 22.01.2001
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
leave out from "excluded" to the second and "be" in line 5 and insert "from the consent requirements of schedules 2 and 3 of the First Data Protection Principle of the Data Protection Act 1998; and calls for the Government to enact legislation which provides alternative safeguards which would limit the use of identifable medical information to the minimum necessary to maintain the confidence of cancer patients, so that names can".