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Retrieving Records from GP

  • 06-02-2016 10:33AM
    #1
    corajen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭


    I was wondering if your unhappy with your GP can you by law retrieve all your medical records including prescriptions, x-rays, blood tests, scans, diagnosis etc. full recovery and time you spent in there care, now it would be decades. would appreciate anyone update on this thank you.


Comments

  • #2
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Patients are entitled to a copy of their personal data under the Data Protection Acts, if nothing else.

    In any event, if a patient asks his doc for his medical records, one would not anticipate a difficulty, on the assumption that the record keeping is up to scratch.

    As with people in any walk of life, some are organised, some are not.


  • #3
    corajen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭corajen


    Thank you


  • #4
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    There is no problem with getting a copy of your records, you will not get the originals as these must be retained for medico-legal reasons. You may have to pay if you want usable copies of film X-rays as photocopies (which would be free) are not sufficient for diagnostic purposes and it is quite expensive to have usable copies made of films. In a lot of cases patients write to their GPs requesting that their records be forwarded to a new GP.


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