Requesting your own medical notes

[DONNA1458]

Can you request to see your own medical records if so how far back and how.TIA

[elginred]

Is it hospital notes or GP notes?

If it's GP notes contact your health center and they should give you details of who to contact. You have to do it in writing though. I'm not aware of any time limitations on viewing medical notes, but if you previously lived in a different area they may not have notes form that time, but a letter from your previous GP to your current one detailing your medical history.

In which case you may have to write to the pre3vious trust in order to obtain these notes.

And I may be wrong, but I think they have to be viewed in the hospital/GP practice.

Good luck.

[bednobs]

you can either view them in the practice or get phhotocopies - they can make a charge of up to 50 pounds
hospita notes - look on the website of hospital you want

[luxury]

Hi Donna,

This is taken from Dr Copperfield writing for The Times lol

a pilot project that will allow patients to see their records and download their test results via the internet. Brilliant � when the scheme is rolled out across the country my patients can find out that they have an inoperable brain tumour from the comfort of their own home. At least that will save me the trouble of breaking it gently. When they sit down with their tear-stained scan result I can go straight in with: �Well, what can�t speak, can�t lie, can it?�

Why wait? Show up at the surgery with some ID and a few quid and the Data Protection Act ensures that you�ll get a printout of your entire computer record: every diagnosis, every prescription, every blood-pressure reading, to do with as you please.

You will no doubt enjoy figuring out that �TATT 2/52 FH T4 O/E NAD TFT+FBC 2CMA� means that you had been �Tired all The Time, for two weeks, have a Family History of Hypothyroidism, On Examination Nothing Abnormal was Detected and that I asked the lab rats to do some Thyroid Function Tests and a Full Blood Count simply To Cover My A***.

Here are 2 sites with guidance to obtaining your records.

http://www.leighday.co.uk/doc.asp?doc=127&CAT= 926

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.a spx?articleId=1309

Happy Reading.

[mandimoo]

i asked my gp for mine whilst at an appointment. she asked what for and i explained that i had been assulted and needed them to back up a possible compensation claim. she posted relevant copies out within a few days.