Hospital Records

billyolly

I know GP records are disrtroyed after 10 years.
I am trying to trace somebody and they where a patient In a hospital that closed down over 10 years.I have emailed my local NHS trust enquiring and await a reply
How long do trust have to keep trust keep hospital patient records?

Flugelhorn

the GP records are kept for 10 years after death.

http://www.bma.org.uk/support-at-work/ethics/confidentiality-and-health-records/retention-of-health-records

it advises hospital records for 8 years after death or end of treatment, different if children or maternity.

Are you actually trying to find the person or something about the records?

TonyMMM

Medical records on individuals are generally closed for up to 100 years (where they exist at all) to anyone except the person themselves.

Even if they have the records, they will not give you any information.

billyolly

I am trying to find out if my mother was a patient the Royal Bucks Hospital in 1950. I am trying to trace a sibling and have evidence she lived 100 yards from the hospital in 1950.Mother has passed away and at the time it was a maternity hospital.

TonyMMM

If you are looking for a sibling, start with their birth certificate and trace them forward from that (looking for marriages, children - possible deaths, electoral register entries, social media accounts etc.). Not sure how you think any medical records would help.

Double_V

Write to their subject access team.
Maybe they will be able to help something.

suki1964

billyolly wrote: »

I am trying to find out if my mother was a patient the Royal Bucks Hospital in 1950. I am trying to trace a sibling and have evidence she lived 100 yards from the hospital in 1950.Mother has passed away and at the time it was a maternity hospital.

Her medical notes will have been destroyed 25 years after she gave birth or 8 years after her last attendance,,whatever was longer

Flugelhorn

It is unlikely that there will be anything from the 50's left to look at.

As TonyMMM says, you need to look for birth certs etc.

System

i obtained my daughters medical records 20 years after her death though i cant see the hospital helping you with a search for a person.

barbarawright

You could try the Salvation Army

http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/reuniting-families

billyolly

I have tried the Salvation Army and family and have evidence of another sibling I have my mothers National Identity card from the war which shows where she was living.My mother gave birth to me in Salvation Army home and I have the records of her stay there.