Dear all,
Would anyone be able to give me advice or point me in the right direction for resources relating to access to health records?
I don't normally deal with health records but we have one collection of a doctor who served in Aleppo hospital (Syria) 1947-1956.
Some of the collection has no access problems consisting of public lectures but there is some material relating to patient diagnosis/treatment (mental health) and a lot of personal/professional correspondence.
For actual medical records I assume these should be closed. I don't know under what conditions (if any) that access could be granted. Does it make any difference if the records were anonymised?
For the correspondence, which is a mixture of personal and professional correspondence, I can't guarantee that patients aren't mentioned. Would I therefore need to read through all the correspondence first to check that patients aren't mentioned? This would be difficult to do - as the collection is large. What do other archivists do with regard to access the personal papers of doctors?
With Many Thanks,
Debbie.
Debbie Usher, Archivist RMARA
Middle East Centre Archive
St Antony's College
Oxford OX26JF
UK
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