ER visits

We have only in this country started to get the relevant information from visits to the hospital.
When, before diagnosis, I got nothing at all, I had to make an appointment, which is now a joke! To get information.
Now, in the past two years, they have to send the report to both you and your GP!
This helps because if you get blood tests done in hospital they must send you any findings and results from the tests.

 

Though I received a copy of a letter sent to my GP telling him that My Hb1Ac was at 54 and that I had impaired glucose intolerance this was about two years ago when I asked my GP about it he said he had never seen it.. Result was not diagnosed as T2 till last December. My new GP is connected to the hospital by computer and all my test results are available to him. Much better.

 

I 'm going to Addenbrookes in Cambridge next week for an ETT (exercise threshold test) I think it's the scenario where they put me on a treadmill with a large mask to capture all the gases and make me run until I collapse or have a heart attack and then inform me if my old ticker is ok....or not. Should I expect therefore to get the written results sent to me as well as my GP? Would be great if so.

 

My Birthplace ! Purrrr!!!!

 

I think in this country (England) you actually have to ask for a copy. If you don't ask, you won't get. Last time I saw a hospital consultant there was a notice up advising of this. I have always asked for copies of letters from consultants to GP, and have always received them. (Going back over 3 years)

 

Thanks Bluetit

 

Wife works as admin in local hospital when ever they send a consultants letter to GP they all ways send a copy to the patient as a matter of routine .

We are in Nottinghamshire.

Though they have been restricted to second class post now so goodness knows when you may receive it.
Edit
I have been corrected by wife this applies in main to clinic letters unless consultant says not to say if it's a letter to another consultant but as a general rule all letters sent to GP are copied and sent to patient.

 

So I'll cover all my babes, repeat three times, get him to repeat and then expect it to get lost in the post, (1st class) or 2nd class arrive by Christmas.

 

When I have outpatient appointments at my closest hospital (Tunbridge Wells at Pembury), my GP always receives a report and I'm copied in. However, when I took my husband to A&E last weekend I noticed a sign on the wall saying that this would only happen for A&E visits if he asked for it.

My GP did tell me once that A&E reports are usually so generic as to be useless: things like "presented with: HEAD; treatment: REF TO GP" and nothing more!

I've also experienced frequent muddles in getting test results between the three hospitals we're closest to (Tunbridge Wells, Eastbourne and Hastings), any London hospital we get referred to and the GP, as well as occasional mis-filings - such as non-fasting bloods classified as fasting.

Unfortunately I was too healthy in the past to be able to judge now whether this is a new phenomenon or an old one.

Kate