Just need a little rant - gonna hit the fan this week with in laws from hell

Andypandyboy

It seems as if the OP has decided not to come back to the thread.

AnnieO1234

Not at all, just been busy. It did all hit the fan day before yesterday. xx

thorsoak

But are you and OH and littleys ok?

Skintandscared

I am utterly flabbergasted by the people trying to suggest that the MIL is in the right in her (quite frankly) psychopathic and abusive behaviour, not to mention the threat of physical violence from the eejit of a FIL!
Regardless of the opinion of the OP, both the accessing of the medical records and threats are basis enough to withdraw access to their grand children - they're obviously not safe to be around children with behaviour like that!!

AnnieO1234

Thorsoak - we're fine thanx, if anything it's brought me even closer to DH. We've not heard anything from FIL at all although MIL showed her colours again. She received our letter and decided to call my dad. Because obviously the thing to do is treat me like a five year old and tell daddy on me. I promise I'll be back on this thread later on today. There's so many points people have asked/raised that I want to make sure I answer each one for clarity.

For those who question the medical records but not medical records, the main information gathering and altering exercise took place on their PAC system. I don't even pretend to know enough about the different systems that the hospitals have. What I do know is that the Chief Executive states that there is significant evidence to show that MIL accessed the PAC system but that "it does not appear" to contain any data which could be said to be in breach of any medical records confidentiality. He lists as follows:

1. Patient's name
2. Patient's date of birth.
3. Patient's hospital number
4. Study date & time
5. Study description
6. NHS number
7. Radiology report
8. The name of the reporting staff member
9. Where the examination was performed
10. The operator
11. Other technical data

I believe it contains GP data, given her ability to contact directly our GP out of 46 possible GPs serving our postcode and given the date which she both contacted the GP and correlating with at least one date of the PAC entry breach.

I'll go get dinner now and be back later on. xxx

FBaby

This thread is really confusing me:

What I do know is that the Chief Executive states that there is significant evidence to show that MIL accessed the PAC system but that "it does not appear" to contain any data which could be said to be in breach of any medical records confidentiality. He lists as follows:

How do you know that? Surely the investigation is private, so how would you be party to this information?

Errata

A PAC system is Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) which manages the storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images including X-rays, ultrasound, CT and MRI scans.
I think the CX is being economical with the actualite.

meritaten

um - it doesn't matter if the records contain confidential information or not - when I studied the Data Protection Act for a module I was doing, even a name and address were considered confidential information. and trying to gain unauthorised access to them was a serious breach of the Data Protection Act - so I think you are being fobbed off.

j.e.j.

meritaten wrote: »

um - it doesn't matter if the records contain confidential information or not - when I studied the Data Protection Act for a module I was doing, even a name and address were considered confidential information. and trying to gain unauthorised access to them was a serious breach of the Data Protection Act - so I think you are being fobbed off.

Very likely, if they are at risk of being fined.

The onus is on the patient to prove that xyz happened, which is evidently going to be very difficult. As predicted earlier in the thread, they're all closing ranks.

If the woman's altered the next of kin details there should be some evidence of that somewhere, surely??

Errata

It all sounds way outside the norm and a bit cloak and dagger ish. It wouldn't cross my mind to find out who'd had a look at my medical records, or my those of my close family, or changed the NOK info.
OP - how did you discover what has happened?