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> While we have a lawyer on the net (which I like, is not preventable, and it
> is better to hear from people than not be aware they are there) how about a
> point which arose a while back:-
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> If a patient asks for an item of information to be erased from their
> records, what happens if they later come back to claim injury has occurred
> because that informatin would have been critical in avoiding an error in
> managing them?
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> Dr Adrian Midgley GP Exeter
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Adrian
I may be wrong (and have not looked up the Access to Health records Act
which provides this right) but I thought the patient could only require
deletion of something that was incorrect or irrelevant to treatment. If
so, then you beg the whole question.
I would say no defence to negligence claim if the relevance of the
information as an aid to diagnosis or treatment in the future ought to
have been apparent at the outset. The doctor should have refused to
delete, explaining why, and forced the patient into the next step under
the Act or to drop the request.
Graham
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