Just a quick question to help clear my mind on the topic of copies of
correspondence regarding patients. The document published by the RCPath (The
Retention and Storage of Pathological Records and Archives, Feb-95) states
(p7) that "Correspondence on patients - Should be lodged in patient's
record. Otherwise keep permanently." My correspondence files are all backed
up on the Hospital main-frame which means (in theory) a permanent electronic
record. Can I thus empty my dusty filing cabinet archive, storing those
early records which are not on PC in a cupboard somewhere, and cease
retaining copies ? What do you all do ?
Philip Hyde
Pilgrim Hospital,
Boston (UK)
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