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So to get started all you have to do is correctly enter a NINETY-FIVE CHARACTER URL…

(That's http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/scr/staff/aboutscr/comms/pip/noscr.pdf for anyone who’d like to save themselves the trouble. Obviously you should check I’m giving you the right URL though.)

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From:

lnr

I'm interested in privacy, but in my case having doctors able to access my medical records more easily in order to treat me outweighs any issues of administrators being able to look at them without just cause. Obviously this would be different if there were anything about my health that I thought needed hiding more, and I understand it's a decision people should make for themselves on a personal basis.

Much as I think the system they've come up with is broken in many ways I'm not going to opt out just as a protest.

From:

lnr

On which note I'm off to the hospital again :)

From:

baljemmett.livejournal.com

I'd have to agree with that; my last checkup was with a doctor who wasn't attached to my consultant's team, who wasn't at all impressed that the notes he had been given bore little resemblance to the eye he was looking at. When I pointed out that there were at this point at least three sets of 'my notes' circulating due to mysterious disappearances and reappearances, etc., he turned and dictated a stern letter to central records telling them to Sort It Out.

It remains to be seen whether this has worked, of course -- I'll find out in a month or so -- but the value of having records available reliably despite the system being a complete and utter shambles in general is going to have to be something I consider when my GP writes about the SCR. Unfortunately.