BBC medical records story

[Ben Clifford]

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> >The idea of the NHS bureacracy looking after my medical records is, IMO, a
> >"complete non-starter". But that is how they are looked after.
>
> Centrally-administered records are a non-starter for political or philosophical
> reasons, while patient-administered records are a non-starter for technical and
> practical reasons.  There's a slight difference.

No, centrally-administeed records are a non-starter for practical reasons.

My only medical records that are not lost are:
   i) my vaccination record
  ii) a copy of my hayfever prescription

By sheer co-incidence, those are also exactly the medical records that I
am in physical possession of.

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