advice needed re: medical hitory

sunshine31

the concerns i have about my gp have been mostly laid to rest, although when i spoke to the practice manager she did say he had authorised this,
even though i had spoken of my concerns to him,
i suppose its expecting alot for him to remember that, with the volume of patients they must have.

lynsayjane

perhaps all your gp had to do was sign a form or something? I don't imagine he'd have had to go and find your file and remove the relevent info and post it himself... good that you've sorted it out with him though, it's not an easy thign to find one that your happy with. I'm lucky that I stumbled across a very nice one in my practice who was very good with an illness I had and seemed genuinely interested in helping so I know who to ask for if I have problems in future, touch wood I've had nothing more serious than tonsilitus since!

CFC

I'm very sorry to hear of your experience. I'm sticking my nose in to say that you might want to be aware that your GP is the data controller in his surgery so he is liable for handing over information about you. Whether or not he is busy is nothing to do with the case quite honestly, we pay GPs damn good salaries out of our taxes for them to do their jobs properly in every way.

There are currently quite a few concerns about medical privacy. The government is seeking to get GPs to upload all info about us onto a national spine which will be accessible by everybody and their dog within the health services. There is an organisation called TheBigOpt out which you can Google if you want to know more. They will also be able to advise you on medical privacy and how to complain in this particular case, as it is an organisation concerned re our shrinking medical privacy. (Look at my sig, sorry it's so long, but I expect you can now understand why people feel passionately about privacy)

Please remember that far from causing trouble or being difficult, you practically have a duty on behalf of others to complain when things go wrong for you. You are upset - but just imagine that it happened to someone else who perhaps had had an abortion, or a miscarriage, or recovered from cancer, or anything else truly ultrasensitive. A person could be driven into depression or a suicidal emotional state by this kind of thing happening to them. You can protect that unknown person by not letting the incident just pass off as 'one of those things'.