Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Access to Personal Files (Social Services) Regulations 1989 by extending the provision for exemption from access to personal health information from a health professional contained in regulation 8 to take account of National Health Service trusts and by including an art therapist or music therapist employed by a National Health Service trust and a scientist employed by a National Health Service trust as a head of department in the definition of health professionals referred to in the Schedule to the 1989 Regulations.