Medical records - England

[Grant_Vicat]

I had to pay £100 "admin fee" for mine approx. 8 years ago, and the admin was so pathetic they missed some pages off.

I managed to get a photocopy of my diagnosis in July 1959, from my village surgery. I truthfully told them I was writing a book for which this was a significant piece of information. I think I was lucky to talk (in person) to a sympathetic receptionist who rang me within the working day to say I could collect it. I wonder if you could try something similar, even though it shouldn't have to be this way? I hope you get somewhere - people underestimate quite how important these documents are to the patient. Within the relatively recent times when we have been entitled to see our notes, I had turned up to outpatients and had all the preliminaries done, was handed my notes, and told to "wait over there." Of course I read my notes avidly and was halted abruptly by a passing nurse who said "You shouldn't be reading those."
"Nowadays I am entitled to, by law!"

 

[Grant_Vicat]

My surgery system is Systemonline. It has, I believe, three levels of access. The first two give access to raise prescriptions, view your (coded) health record and see test results. The highest level allows you to view letters etc sent by hospitals to the surgery. Few surgeries allow this top level of access including mine.

I find online research frustratingly restricted. Talking in person has always got me so much further.

 

[Resurgam]

I read my notes when left alone with them whilst the GP took a phone call - full of sneering and sarcastic comments about my weight and attitude to being given advice about it - so I am not all that surprised that I can't get access.

 

[jjraak]

I read my notes when left alone with them whilst the GP took a phone call - full of sneering and sarcastic comments about my weight and attitude to being given advice about it - so I am not all that surprised that I can't get access.

Horrendous

FOI request ?


Even if not granted, Might just make them reconsider their written tone towards its patients

 

[jjraak]

My

Well, I had something from 1978 then a few other operations, or so then a gap until 2002 and then a huge gap until 2012 at which point there seems to be pretty much all test results

whether I missed lots of tests or nothing happened, hard to say but I suspect as it was paperwork and I guess transferred manually between surgeries that it just hasn’t moved over

probably if I really wanted to I could ask for all the paperwork, but not so worried about that

I have to admit, I actually quite like econsult as I can write everything down and make sure nothing is missed. But then I generally don’t enjoy talking to people anyway

A big up for E-consult here too