Do hospitals ever lose your medical records and information?
Yes, all the time.
Hospitals quite often lose some or all of your records, when they change computer systems. GPs are better at keeping information.
Is there a single NHS medical record?
Unfortunately there is no single complete NHS medical record. But you can see parts of it – for example, at your GPs and hospital – and cobble most of it together.
You are more likely to get more complete information out of your GPs medical records.
What’s in your GP record
- Medicines your GP has prescribed
- Allergies you have
- Vaccinations you’ve had
- Long-term conditions
- Notes from appointments at your GP surgery
- Results of tests your GP surgery has arranged
- Letters that hospitals or specialists have sent to your GP.
