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RedStix

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Hi all

Hoping someone can help me. I just rang a doctor who was my GP when i was a child. Their practise is based down the country. I asked them to forward on my medical records to me as it has been 10 years since i saw them last and won't be going back to that practise.

The doctor has refused to send me the records directly and has said they will only send them on to my new GP (when i get one).

My question is, is the old GP obliged to forward me my personal records upon request?

Thanks for any input you may have

Redstix
 
Don't ask me to quote specific law, but from memory the prevailing consensus is that they are entitled to refuse to send the records to you.

This is an area which is the subject of some lively debate among legal scholars. The reasons usually given are that there may well be information in the records which a doctor might - on valid therapeutic grounds - decide should not be disclosed to the patient. Of course, the decision on this issue passes from your old doctor to your newly nominated one.
 
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