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Originally Posted by mertle
seems not ours aparantly property of Secretary of State for Health. this full legal position of NHS records.
Apparantly Circle who doing cambridge hospital cant access the records under the current system rules. Maybe why government changing it. Who fault that they caused the issue allowing private sector in. I suspect that the real reason not the one they championing.
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You appear to be talking out of an inappropriate orifice.
When you turn up at a hospital for the first time (say, at A&E), if you have not previously visited that hospital, they will not have any medical records about you (which was what part of the NHS IT transformation was about, allowing access to a patient's medical history at the time and place of treatment).
I have been treated a private hospital, and they ask your permission to access your medical records in order to treat you appropriately (and understand the implications of your medical history on the current treatment), and liaise with your GP on this. You could, of course, refuse this permission, but I am pretty sure they wouldn't treat you then....