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Time to dump outdated NHS misinformation

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[QUOTE=" if you ask your surgery you should be given your test results, by law.[/QUOTE] That law is the Data Protection Act 1998 - prior to that it was not law and doctors did not let you see any of your test results or records etc.
 
Robin said:
We can get our results by phone, once the doctor has checked them and marked them Ok, so I don't see why not.
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Well while you are feeling well and the doctor tells you over the phone everything is OK that is fine. The time you really want to SEE your test results is when you are feeling really ill and the doctor tells you that you are OK. It will be an eye opener.
 
Lilian said:
Well while you are feeling well and the doctor tells you over the phone everything is OK that is fine. The time you really want to SEE your test results is when you are feeling really ill and the doctor tells you that you are OK. It will be an eye opener.
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Agree, it would be so much better if our surgery pulled its finger out and signed up to EMIS for the full package, not just prescriptions. In the meantime, I insist on getting a print-out of my results, so I can look at all the figures,( which is fine for me because I'm fit enough to call in at the surgery, I know some people aren't)
 
About 6 years ago (I think) I was handed a booklet at my diabetes review which was intended as a record of all my numbers from test results. Since then, I have only been given the numbers I specifically ask about, and sometimes that's like pulling teeth 😱 Why bother giving me a booklet then trying for some bizarre and unknown reason to withhold the information I'm supposed to be recording? I'm pretty sure that, by now, I know more about what those numbers mean than the person hiding them from me 🙄
 
Northerner said:
About 6 years ago (I think) I was handed a booklet at my diabetes review which was intended as a record of all my numbers from test results. Since then, I have only been given the numbers I specifically ask about, and sometimes that's like pulling teeth 😱 Why bother giving me a booklet then trying for some bizarre and unknown reason to withhold the information I'm supposed to be recording? I'm pretty sure that, by now, I know more about what those numbers mean than the person hiding them from me 🙄
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The record book I was given over 13 years ago was one from one of the drug companies! Not specific to my kind treatment!
 
grovesy said:
The record book I was given over 13 years ago was one from one of the drug companies! Not specific to my kind treatment!
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This was supposed to be a new initiative specifically for Type 1 diabetics though, to prompt us to know and understand our numbers better, there was just absolutely no follow-up so a complete waste of time and money :(
 
Vicsetter said:
QUOTE: As of 31 March 2015, practices are required to offer registered patients in England online access to summary information from their medical records (provided the practice has the necessary computer systems in place).

The key words here are in brackets, you can read the full article here: https://www.themdu.com/guidance-and...ce/online-access-to-patient-records-your-faqs
You may note that it is up to the surgery to determine what are summary data.

I would also like to point out that some people in England assume that NHS England rules apply to the whole of the UK.. This is definitely not the case (which is why we in Scotland key free prescriptions and free eye sight tests).
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That is intresting about necessary computer systems! Mine had a new system installed last year and for 3 months during the change over to the new system, they stopped normal clinics, bloods and booked in advance appointments!
It still took them till recently to have the online patient access but not the full package!
 
Not all surgeries use the same web system for patient info - EMIS is one and there are two others according to something I was reading a while ago. Some are more capable than others - the one my surgery use so far has appointments, repeat scrips and allergies on it (so the latter's blank for me LOL) and yes they were all 'supposed' to have test results available and furthermore the hospitals as well as GP surgeries were all 'supposed' to have a system for T1s too for test results to enable us to consider the numbers before we got face to face with the main man (or lady) to save everyone time if nowt else - but obviously they haven't bothered. Thing is of course - it will take extra time for somebody somewhere in order to actually do it - so they just don't.

It infuriates me because in the whole of Scotland they have a web system 'My diabetes - My way' where everything about your D is available - and everybody absolutely loves it so it obviously works really really well - and can't be that much trouble else it wouldn't be so well used and folk would keep having probs with it - so why the hell can't England Wales and Ireland just use THAT?

There's no need to re-invent any wheels, FFS. Economies of scale - the more that use it, it has to become proportionately cheaper for everybody too, surely!
 
My surgery the system is called system online, and I only get the same information you do Jenny!
It can't be CCG thing either as I regular lunch with someone who has whole access thing at a different surgery in same area!
 
Ours is the EMIS system. The surgery introduced the online repeats bit of it a couple of years ago, and the forms they produced said they would eventually be widening it to appointments, test results etc, but they don't seem to have got round to it. But judging by the vegetation growing out of the guttering all round the building ( it was newly built about fifteen years ago) there's quite a lot of things they don't get round to.
 
Ours is EMIS as well. I can do online repeats and book certain appointments but can't see test results. The EMIS page states please speak to your surgery for this facility. When I enquired at the surgery about this they said we're hoping to get that part up and running soon. That was months ago. 🙄
 
Northerner said:
Couldn't agree more Jenny. Looks like you have the same paltry system as me :(
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Mine's the same. Appointments & repeat prescriptions only.:(
 
grovesy said:
My surgery the system is called system online, and I only get the same information you do Jenny!
It can't be CCG thing either as I regular lunch with someone who has whole access thing at a different surgery in same area!
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Ours called 'Patient Services' now, not 'Vision Online' and you need a password a yard and a half long now also, in order to access yourself.
 
It seems as if there are multiple systems, my password has to be long too! I also get an email to say someone has accessed!
 
Ralph-YK said:
I listened to a couple of radio programmes and podcasts about conspiracy theories. They said a government conspiracy isn't needed in a lot of the examples. Officals and politicians are not perfect. All it requires is incompetence.
I've had Diabetec dieticiens and Nurses I've met in person disagree. One commented "well I don't know why she said that" of another.
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Yes, that's true, and incompetency takes a lot less effort. Also of importance is political will - current efforts of politicians regarding the health of the country seem to be focused on making money out of it.
 
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