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From: [log in to unmask] on behalf of C-P
Sent: Monday, December 16, 1996 10:40
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Release of patients notes
>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've had all sorts of advice from sending the lot by registered mail to
>never letting them leave the premises under any circumstances, but sending
>photocopies only (at an appropriate cost).
> Dr Adrian Canale-Parola |-#==>-
We never send notes out from the surgery.
We explain they are the property of the secretary of state,
and not ours to send.
We offer to send photocopies, and charge for the service.
Ruth
http://www.Stamford.co.uk/littlesurgery
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