C-P wrote:
>
> Probably an old chestnut, so apologies in advance, but what's the current
> thinking on the release of patients' notes, with their consent, to a third
> party (invariably a solicitor, or a medical specialist)?
We send them all (computer printouts or photcopies) with signed consent.
If the
solicitor insists on the originals & they sometimes do - then we keep
photcopies
& charge them anyway. They go registered mail.
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