Dear colleagues,
There is some useful guidance on the web at
http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsexec/manrec.htm regarding the retnetion of medical
records - there is also the BSI DISC PD0008 & 9:1999 Code of Practice and
Compliance Workbook on the Legal Admissibility and Evidential Weight of
Information Stored Electronically
Not sure if the BMA can help with other guidelines for GP's
rgds,
Susan Snell
Archivist
The Natural History MuseumAt 10:15 AM 7/24/01 +0100, [log in to unmask]
wrote:
>I'm not sure if this is useful or not, but when I worked as a doctors
>receptionist we were always told that the medical file for each
>patient was the property of the Secretary of State and therefore
>couldn't be destroyed, sent out to insurance companies, etc.
>
>Particularly in the case of GP practices, where medical files are
>sent on to other doctors when patients leave the area - surely it
>would be daft to destroy the originals when there is no guarantee
>that other surgeries have the same technology or computer
>knowledge to deal with scanned copies?
>
>Then again, I was a recptionist quite a while ago.
>
>
>Sarah Henning
>Archivist
>Society of Genealogists
>14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA
>tel: 020 7251 8799 email: [log in to unmask]
>
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