BBC medical records story

[Adrian Midgley]

On Monday 18 March 2002 02:33, you 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.

Not really.  I look after my patients' medical records, by employing a=20
manager and receptionists to do so, and administering a computer storage=20
system for the electronic part of it.  Nobody else administers my system =
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present, nor runs queries against it, although they'd like to. =20

The local hospitals have a records department, and in all but 17% or so o=
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cases they manage to find their records.


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> http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/

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