It is for developments such as these (and several others) that I'm of the opinion that access to records by others than the own GP much be acheived by a formal request for information and the execution of the request by the responsable data guarding GP.
All exchanges of information must be done by the responsable GP.
This is the only way of making persons accountable on on hand and guarding security.
And stop suggesting to people that every where all infoirmation can be made available.
Gerard
At 19:02 -0000 28-09-1998, Douglas Soutter wrote:
>A patients son was apologising today for being rude to one of the Coop
>doctors over the weekend. He was surprised that this doctor did not have
>access to our medical records and had no means of getting access at the
>weekend.
>
>He is a QC and felt that we were not fulfilling our legal (not medical)
>obligation if we were dealing with patients without access to the records.
>The implication was that if something went wrong that could be attributed to
>this lack of knowledge then we could be sued (not applicable in this case I
>hasten to add). I asked him if there had been a test case, but he said he
>hoped it would never have to come to this, i.e. the problem (if there is
>one) should not arise in the first place.
>
>I am curious as to whether this is just legal bluster or whether there would
>be a case. It means that if you present to A+E or to another doctor out of
>your area then they would have some legal obligation to know what was in the
>full records or run the risk of being sued. What it did demonstrate to me
>was how detached from reality our legal profession is and once again the
>medical profession are being asked to carry the can for all our patients
>forgetfulness, e.g.. sending smear reminders
>
>Douglas Soutter
>http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dsoutt
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