Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance or requirements her Department has issued to NHS trusts on retaining and releasing to patients and their families their historical versions of clinical policies.
Answer (holding answer)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Verdict: RED (5/100) DEFERRED
The reply is a holding response: it says the question cannot be answered within the usual time limit and that a full answer is being prepared. Neither part of the question has been answered yet. It gives no information on guidance or requirements for retaining historical clinical policies, or on releasing those policies to patients and families. A full answer will need to come in a later reply.
How we got there
| Question item | Coverage | Specificity | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| What guidance or requirements the Department has issued to NHS trusts on retaining historical versions of clinical policies. | Deferred | Generic | The reply is a holding response that says the question cannot be answered within the usual time period and that an answer is being prepared, but it gives no information about guidance or requirements on retaining historical clinical policies. |
| What guidance or requirements the Department has issued to NHS trusts on releasing historical versions of clinical policies to patients and their families. | Deferred | Generic | The reply only defers the answer and says nothing about guidance or requirements on releasing historical clinical policies to patients and families, so the substantive question is left unanswered for now. |