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>In a message dated 07/07/96 08:04:19, you write:
>
>>Does this bring us back to a previous thread?
>>How much do we need cradle to grave records?
>>Mary
>>PS If your records are destroyed,it solves a lot of confidentiality
>>problems!
>>
>>
>
>At a meeting this weekend [in Dublin ;-)))))))] a lawyer admitted that not
>having the notes made it more difficult for a patient to sucessfully put a
>case unless it was very obviously negligent and that the numbers of missing
>hospital notes was more than one would expect by chance. Do cradle to grave
>records solve more problems than they create (or the other way round)?
>
Which system was the lawyer working in? If it was England and Wales, it
gives food for thought..
Mary
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