Patient Knows Best…..NHS

Fleurpepper

Not the question in the OP, but the name of the app. sounds all wrong to me. How can 'patient know best' when they have not done the 6-9 years study + umpteen years experience?

Because they 'have read it on the internet'?

But mistakes have been made on medical records, address and phone number, jabs recorded as not given when they were, dates of surgical procedures, even blood group. I don’t dispute superior medical knowledge, but administrative detail is not immune to error.
A friend some years ago miscarried one of twins and the “surviving” twin died soon after birth. On asking a doctor at a check up a few weeks later when she might try for another baby was told she was being a bit “greedy” as she had one healthy baby didn’t she? Somebody had not checked her records.
A bit of “belt and braces” is no bad thing and to extend ownership of one’s records is IMO totally justified.

Fleurpepper

Not the question in the OP, but the name of the app. sounds all wrong to me. How can 'patient know best' when they have not done the 6-9 years study + umpteen years experience?

Because they 'have read it on the internet'?

True, but on the other hand, no-one knows your own body better than you do, and it can be very easy for patients to be dismissed when they know, deep down, that there is something not right.

Not the question in the OP, but the name of the app. sounds all wrong to me. How can 'patient know best' when they have not done the 6-9 years study + umpteen years experience?

Because they 'have read it on the internet'?

I have this but all I can find are rrceny blood tests etc
I thought we were able to access all our medical records

I just tried on my NHS App and it just has a tab ‘My GP Health Record’ with the information I expected?