SARs

GPs providing full patient medical records to insurers risk breaking data protection laws, the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned. Cover looks at this industry practice in greater depth

Aviva is piloting Subject Access Requests to explore the benefits of obtaining customer's full medical reports for underwriting.

Subject access requests might seem a panacea to an industry inundated with GP reports. But there are side-effects for everyone in the chain, writes Chris Pollard.

GPs have become so poor at returning medical request forms that advisers have been forced to attend appointments with patients to ensure they are completed.

Lifesearch has applauded Legal & General's use of subject access requests (SARs) to obtain extra medical data and said it is seeing positive results for clients.

Subject access requests and online technology have opened the debate over GP reports. Ian Smart asks if this could remove a perennial insurance bugbear.