Health Insurance Documents signed on day admission to hospital for injection should a copy be provided?

[NOAH]

A friend had to go to hospital yesterday for a hip injection and they signed 2 items and given a black folder to take to ward. They never got the folder back and don't have a clue what they signed!!

Should they have been provided with copies?

It was private with laya.

 

[JoeRoberts]

Did they ask ? They could just take a picture on phone in future.

 

[NOAH]

they thought they would get folder back and it was 2 sets of documents ie pages and pages?

 

[TomEdison]

It's not standard to provide people with copies on admission. They're not really in a position, while in the ward, to treat their personal documents with appropriate confidentiality.

If your friend asks for copies, I'm sure she'll be given them.

 

[JoeRoberts]

But if everyone wants a copy then more staff will be needed, that is the reality unless they use carbon paper.

 

[ClubMan]

A relative was in hospital recently and was curious to see their file/chart but they were told that they'd have to make a formal request to see it.

Accessing medical records | The Mater Hospital

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God be with the days that they left it hanging on the end if the bed and everybody could have a goo...

 

[NOAH]

Solved, they rang LAYA and apparently what they sign relates to the claim and then when the claim goes to LAYA they will be contacted, so sorted but the procedure went a bit poorly and they wondered if they had signed away any rights of redress.

 

[arbitron]

they wondered if they had signed away any rights of redress

No matter what you sign or don't sign you always have a right to make a complaint or even take legal action. There are many rights that you cannot legally waive, even if you want to.