Leekbrookgull
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So we are told that 9 Nhs trusts have lost medical records and data of thousands maybe many more patients. Like me how others have opted out of going on the national medical database ?
That'll be handy when you turn up in a hospital miles away, and wont be able to find out any records about you - including allergies.
It's so so SO dangerous to opt out of a medical database.
I happen to think that your medical records are private. For you and your G/P only. What if you were a woman and had an abortion,a man hiv positive. That information is private,and should stay in the surgery and those that need to know.
I happen to think that your medical records are private. For you and your G/P only. What if you were a woman and had an abortion,a man hiv positive. That information is private,and should stay in the surgery and those that need to know.
You have both made fair points,my problem is that not everyone is a professional in the first place. If information was safe and secure it would not get lost in the first place.
It is all down to the persons who have the acess to the records, you either trust their discretion or not. When I had my pub in Midhurst one of the biggest gossips in the world was a medical receptionist and many things were common knowledge, she was obviously in the wrong job.
I think that the records should be on a disc readily available to the medical proffesion anywhere but the likes of receptionists should sign a declaration of secrecy, like Official Secrets, with heavy penalties for any misuse.
The sad flip side of the story is that the NHS will have to smarten up their record keeping. We've just spent 2 hours at Worthing Hospital waiting for them to find our Nana. She was moved in the night and her computer record was not updated so basically they didn't know where she was. (sadly neither does she which just makes it worse when the only people she does know can't get to her without walking the wards looking)...
You have both made fair points,my problem is that not everyone is a professional in the first place. If information was safe and secure it would not get lost in the first place.
It is difficult. Obviously with doctors & nurses etc, you are bound to confidentiality, I'm sure that medical receptionists would have the nouse to adhere to this also - as all records have "CONFIDENTIAL" written on the front of them!
In most cases I would agree but in the one I mentioned the lady in question took great pleasure in telling me one of my customers had just had a termination.
They had that problem with admitting me onto a ward when I did my shoulder, as they've just changed their systems over there.
It is all down to the persons who have the acess to the records, you either trust their discretion or not. When I had my pub in Midhurst one of the biggest gossips in the world was a medical receptionist and many things were common knowledge, she was obviously in the wrong job.
I think that the records should be on a disc readily available to the medical proffesion anywhere but the likes of receptionists should sign a declaration of secrecy, like Official Secrets, with heavy penalties for any misuse. Even to the extent of making it, if it isnt already. a criminal offence to divulge confidential medical records.