NHS - Health Records

As well as being clinical tools, vital to providing effective and efficient care, health records are also legal documents used to establish who did what, when they did it and to who. As a hospital, Guys & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) are governed by common law, the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Act, and failure to adhere to their duties can have a huge implication to the Trust.
The Information Governance Team (IG) at GSTT had some dry, but nonetheless extremely important information to get into their people’s heads. The challenge was to create a video which was interesting and engaging but which emphasised the importance of the content and provided some practical advice that people would remember and take on board.
On the back of the success of a previous film for IG, ‘Sliding Wards’, the team approached Fudge Animation with the task of creating an infographic style video which would help the team to achieve their objectives of transforming staff’s attitude towards health records and, ultimately, their behaviour.

[@loveasmr5336]

If paper medical records are legal documents then why are they not accepted in Inquests ?

[@colterstevens6534]

5 years on and i cant even get blood results or mri results still big waste of money this institution. Imagine how many lives could be saved if people had access to there own data.

[@Ty-qv3ml]

watching this video because the NHS didnt collect enough information on me when i was younger so i cant join the army

[@Ehsggsh12747]

Do you know if the military holds health records against you when applying e.g substance misuse (Related to going to hospital) or will that only come under criminal record on your background check?

[@Ty-qv3ml]

​@@Ehsggsh12747 If they find out you have a past of substance abuse, they will decline you. And yeah, they will probably hold it against you when joining - a lad in AC when i went, got declined for 3 years for self harm, others drug abuse as well. Is it on your health record?

[@carolpowell6717]

some of the stuff in the comments would possibly be on social services records and that would also be under NHS. if there is a gap in the records that say 3 years, if you never attended GP or hospital then the Human Resources team would pick up on that, they are I think the council.
They might assume you were away somewhere like young offenders or a council-run institution so you would need a backup letter from those places to say you are not known to them.
You can also get your school records to prove where you were, available from the council authority or you could even try the school but I would have thought once you left it all went onto the council.
schools also store health records such as vaccinations and periodic health checks, also PE would be an option, as they hold weight records and so on.
one last add any substance hospital or self-harm visit would be on the A/E sheets and they would also go to your GP so the Army would get all those separate sheets.
Human resources would do a detailed check if you pay them to do that to prove where you were when young.

[@Ehsggsh12747]

@@Ty-qv3ml Im applying/pre training anyway. On there page where it says disqualifying factors for training it does say they may consider the nature of the event. This probably means Ill be declined however I do have work experience in the electrical trade as well as qualifications which would be relevant to my application to become an RAF Vehicle and Mechanical Technician.
It would be pretty depressing if they declined me because of my NHS record. It has been less then 2 years since the event of going to hospital.

[@Ehsggsh12747]

If it doesn't work out well ill still be employable in the civilian world however joining the RAF in a mechanical/engineering role would be a dream job because it provides discipline, purpose and some of the best training in the world, kind of hate my young self but I guess there is nothing that can be done about the past, you can only move forward.