to expect NHS to coordinate info

I'm in total agreement with you hummingbird - although I have to say my GP is my co-partner in this. She's wonderful.

I agree that not all parts of the. NHS are suitably joined-up, but I feel that I am the person with the most reliable overview of my health, and have the biggest vested interest, so I make it my business to ensure that everyone dealing with me is promptly brought up to date. (I do understand that not everyone has the means/will/confidence to do this, though!)

One thing about consultants' letters I have discovered is that they can be sent to India (told this by 3 people now) to be written - and then need correcting often when they come back.....which of course takes ages, which is why my GP never knows what happened by the time I see her.....so I tell her.

Nina the GP surgery has to review you every year if you are on longstanding medication.
Presumably the hospital clinic would tell the GP if they thought you needed to change your meds, but it would seem a bit silly for the clinic to write, or even email, the GP every 8 weeks just to say 'We have examined Ninathenanna and she's fine'.

This doesn't suprise me at all nina my mum is on kidney dialyis (and has been for some time now) she also has bone cancer and was summoned by her GP's surgery to have a kindey function test and a bone density test.

Talk about a waste of time. They obviously dont read the letters set to them by my mums various consultants.

I've made a point of informing my GP about other appt happenings...

But I have just realised that I have been going to two different clinics, gastric and now back problems - which may actually be part of the same problem, as I have discovered that colitis can cause spinal arthritis......