Access to health records

National advice service factsheet
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  • Produced by: Rethink
  • Format: Factsheets
  • Date: 2005
  • 3 pages

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 Whenever a doctor or health professional sees you they will write up what they have observed, their thoughts on your condition and any treatment they have prescribed in your health records. At some point you may wish to see your health records to find out what they have written. Health records that you might want to see include those written by:

  • Medical doctors, e.g. your GP or psychiatrist
  • Nurses
  • Clinical psychologist, or child psychotherapist
  • Occupational therapist.

This factsheet explains rights to accessing health records.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that individual fact sheets are available free of charge to users of mental health services and their carers, but are chargeable to organisations at the rates shown per copy. Photocopying of individual fact sheets by organisations is strictly prohibited.