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Confused by GP comment on blood test

When we first start off we make all sorts of mistakes because it takes a while to sort out a path through the minefield.

It is important that you don't beat yourself up. Treat everything as part of your education.

Are you using the mysugr app to record your food and bg readings? After a few days it will give you an estimated hba1c. Not guaranteed to be the same as a lab test but close enough to show whether you are trending up or down. I found it to be highly motivating when I first started. There is a free version.
 
Not everyone get all this information online it is down to the individual GP practises as to how much in formation they let their patients see and many will not put records on line that is their choice. On mine I can make appointments see blood test results and order repeat prescriptions and thats it. My GP practise does not put more than that on their patients online access
 
Thank you. That is so encouraging. Just what I needed to hear to spur me on.
 
Thanks I've never heard of it. Sounds worth looking into.
 
I could be wrong but I think you have to ask to see your records on line specifically, as I understand you have the right to request to see your records in paper form or electronic. I know I had to request to have mine available electronically I don't think they automatically let you access them. I've been able to go into my record to find out what vaccinations I had as a child and childhood illnesses. According to NHS uk you can even nominate someone else that you trust to access them.
 

just to let you know that it is common practice to test once, then again approx a couple of weeks later, to check the first wasn’t lab error, and to confirm the diagnosis. Thereafter, HbA1cs can be 3 or 6 monthly, or even annually - all depends on how well controlled your D is, and how on the ball the surgery is.
 
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I have asked about it at my GP practise and was told at the present time they are not putting patient records online
 
My surgery doesn't do it. I was told it was in case it upset people. Absolute rubbish. Awaiting 2020 with bated breath.
 
It's certainly going to make a lot of work getting past stuff on. My previous surgery put stuff on line just before we moved in 2011 and were advertising for part time temporary staff to just transcribe from hard copy to electronic. That was about the January and when we moved in the June they still had four temps doing it. Perhaps back then they were given incentives to get their records electronic? I'm just glad mine are already there as with no family left I couldn't answer questions from consultants about childhood illness, but I could look and as I've opted for mine to be shareable within NHS they can look up there and then.
 
Surely GPs have been keeping records electronically for a number of years anyway, so at least making those available can't be hard, even if much older records need data entry.
 
Mr_Pot said:
Surely GPs have been keeping records electronically for a number of years anyway, so at least making those available can't be hard, even if much older records need data entry.
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I haven't seen my brown fat envelopes (several) full of illegible scribble for many years, however I do have a fat bundle of brown A4 files whenever I see my consultants one told me that mine always came on a separate trolley, I think he was joking?
 
Norfolkmell said:
I haven't seen my brown fat envelopes (several) full of illegible scribble for many years, however I do have a fat bundle of brown A4 files whenever I see my consultants one told me that mine always came on a separate trolley, I think he was joking?
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The NHS still rely on paper for exchanging information it seems. I asked my DN about their database and she told me that a plan to share information electronically between different centres was abandoned due to concerns about data protection. She told me she sometimes works in a local hospital instead of the GP surgery and when she is there she can only get basic information about her patients from the GP system. As she said it hardly seems more secure for vans to be ferrying about paper records rather than doing it electronically. It is seems ridiculous considering the GP system (EMIS) and my access to it via I-patient work very well.
 
I was lucky with my surgery. Records were put on line right at the beginning of the scheme and that is when I signed up. All the digital information from the GP system was uploaded to Patient Access (EMIS) at the press of a button with some very old stuff from my childhood and a big gap from then to the present. Since then, more historical stuff appears every now and again in batches. I assume from that someone at the surgery is gradually going through all the paper stuff and entering it, rather than doing it all at once.

What annoys me is the way hospitals haven't caught up. The test results they do are kept secret. Last time I was an inpatient I had a raft of blood tests but no way would they give me a print out. They have not been passed on to my GP as far as I am aware. Whilst they do FAX reports, scan and x-ray results through to the GP (who puts them on my on-line records), blood test results do not appear to be passed on.
 
xfieldok said:
My surgery doesn't do it. I was told it was in case it upset people. Absolute rubbish. Awaiting 2020 with bated breath.
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Mine doesn’t either - when I asked I was told it depended on what the surgery had signed up to originally and ours hadn’t. Unfortunately with my surgery I’m not surprised.
 
Daphne917 said:
Mine doesn’t either - when I asked I was told it depended on what the surgery had signed up to originally and ours hadn’t. Unfortunately with my surgery I’m not surprised.
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Well according to the http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/gp...st-medical-records-from-2020/20038203.article they don't have the choice. Also @Bluetit1802 hospital records should be made available to you following a written request. But I can't find the link now, too early in the morning!
 
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