Hospital Records

TonyMMM

Do you have a copy the siblings birth certificate ?

silvercar

Different hospitals must have different rules. I was told 6 years from last treatment.

Katgrit

It sometimes depends on the specialty, for example mental health records have to be kept for longer. There's also a difference between paper copies being kept and computerised records (sometimes the paper copies are destroyed but there will still be an electronic scanned version of those records.

Regardless I doubt they'd be able to give you any information even if they do exist. I'm sure that Confidentially exists beyond death (but I could be wrong). I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but I work in the NHS and every single bit of data protection and confidentiality training I've had would say they wouldn't be able to help you. (Unless there's a secret role that they don't tell us general rabble!)

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silvercar

Katgrit wrote: »

It sometimes depends on the specialty, for example mental health records have to be kept for longer. There's also a difference between paper copies being kept and computerised records (sometimes the paper copies are destroyed but there will still be an electronic scanned version of those records.

Regardless I doubt they'd be able to give you any information even if they do exist. I'm sure that Confidentially exists beyond death (but I could be wrong). I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but I work in the NHS and every single bit of data protection and confidentiality training I've had would say they wouldn't be able to help you. (Unless there's a secret role that they don't tell us general rabble!)

xx

Information can be given to next of kin under certain circumstances.

Guest101

If you know the rough date of birth, then birth certificates will be the best bet

Nicki

There's been a previous thread on this. Speaking as someone who was adopted as a child myself I'd love it if my siblings were looking for me and I do wish the OP well. But the adopted child will have the first name and surname given by the adoptive parents in public records not their birth name so this is a complete red herring as was pointed out to the OP in the previous thread.

Maternity records I'd have thought are highly confidential so I can't see the hospital giving this info up but even if they did, would only be able to give the birth name of the child not the adopted name. And adoption records are sealed to everyone other than the adopted person themselves.

The options are, as previously discussed, to put himself on the Contact register for adopted persons and to advertise on the Internet and in print media in locations where she may still live. But both OP and his sister are quite advanced in age so there isn't any guarantee sadly that she will see it or that she is even still alive.

clairec79

Notes aren't always destroyed - but if you aren't wanting the notes for your personal records (ie if you were the patient) you may well have difficulties - I recently got hold of my great grandfathers medical records from 1909, I could only have them because he had been dead for 100 years