Not so easy. Had blood tests a month ago - then had letter asking me to go back for more.
I phoned my GP treatment room and asked and they pretty much did not want to tell me.
So I went back for 2nd test. And asked when I was there. Bit more info but still vague.
Now I've got a letter asking to see GP.
I "think" its querying high calcium problems. I would like to actually see my own results.
Can I just ask my GP to provide the results to me? Or do I have to officially request information?
Legally you have the right to see them, since April I think you should be able to get online access to your coded medical record and test results, you'd need to either go in with ID documentation or if you know the staff well they may give you access without but slim.
Or you could just ask for them to be printed for you, they may need to check with GP first but again it's your right to see actual results.
HTH
I ask the receptionist for a printout. I sometimes have a bit of a fight, but you are entitled to the results. They are yours after all.
I am in the US and I'm pretty sure the doctor hands me the results when I go in for my annual exam. I go for a blood test the week before. Actually I just had one a few days ago and will see my GP on Monday....and undoubtedly will be told my cholesterol should be lower
You are entitled to see your own medical records.
Just ask for a print out of your test results. I always get mine.
I am in Australia and never have any trouble getting them.
We've got quite a difference between Dr in the UK, the are those who actively encourage patients to access their records online, and at the other end those that give you the barest minimum and only then if you ask, I think it's either 2018 or 2020 when they will have to legally allow access to your full record.
Always worth asking though.
I am in Australia, and as I understand it the Dr has to give you the results himself, for legal reasons, if a staff members was to give you the results and mis-report them, disaster, and expensive for Dr.
Secondly, you are entitled to all your reports including copies of specailsits letters to your GP.
I have copies of all of my husbands with his heart failure, has saved us alot of problems when he has presented at hospital in trouble, staff saying we will have to wait for his file, NO YOU WON'T, I have a copy of it here, and pull out my old laptop bag that is all letters, Echo reports, MRI reports, pacemker instruction booklet, GP's letters all in date order, that floors them when I ask which letter would they like, and allow them to copy them.
Last time we reported at his outpatient appointment, the junior Dr when we arrived in his rooms, said Oh, I only have an old file here, they have brought up the wrong file from storage, You can guess what I did, pulled out my case, and zipped it open, and said, don;t worry about your files, I have copies of everything here. Took him back a pace or too, I got the distinct feeling he really did not want to deal with us.
He then never wrote a report on the preceding echo that day, and also no report from him personally on how he felt husband was doing, and the fact we had reported pain in husbands left arm.
Don't think he any longer has a job in the heart hospital, when senior specialist found out, I TOLD HIM, in no uncertain terms I was not happy with previous appt, and in my opinion the beginning of Jan 2016 appt and echo should have rung alarm bells, and why was their no report on the echo that was done the same day, not left until he collapsed 10 weeks later.
I do know that there was a meeting the senior specialist office the following day, helps to have friendly nurses, and husbands file was demanded to be seen, I also heard the senior specialist roaring at his junior staff further down the corridor immediatley he had left my husband.
Hi Beverly - Theres a different culture in the uk. There is a lot of shut up, we'll tell you what we want, and deal with you when you want and dont moan because its free. :-(
Well, that's not good. Is this because of socialized medicine or just backward thinking in the UK? Things have changed here. We are often supposed to make medical decisions about our care which can go too far IMO. I prefer to be informed of all the facts, hear the doctor's opinion and then choose.
Hey there,
I work for a GP surgery in West Midlands and if a patient asks for a copy of their test results for whatever reason we just print it off there and then. Like the other commenters have said, you have a right to see the results.
Not sure why it's such an issue in other parts of the country??
Just to add, as receptionist, we are wary of giving result details over the telephone for confidential reasons but if you were to come in personally that's normally fine. So long as the GP has put a comment on there (because all those numbers mean very little to me haha)