Access my Medical Record

The system allows you to view the following areas of your medical record:

• A summary that gives you the most important and recent entries in your health record
• Allergies
• Patient Information Leaflets linked from the diagnoses in the medical record section
• Results showing recent investigations such as blood results, blood pressures and x-rays
• Vaccinations
• Medications

This practice believes that it is important for improved patient care and learning that you are involved in your healthcare as much as possible.

Advantages to you, the patient:

• You can check the accuracy of your medical record.
• It empowers you to become more involved in your medical care.

• The information you view on the online system comes from the clinical system in your GP practice.
• Portions of this information are encrypted - this means it is very difficult for someone else to intercept and read the information.
• Your information is securely sent from the GP system to your PC web browser.
• None of the medical information that is shown on the online system is held permanently on any computer except the computer which holds the original data in the GP practice.
• When you log off from the online system or if a problem occurs with your computer, for instance, a power failure, all your confidential medical information is cleared from the online system.

• To view your online Record you have to identify yourself with passwords and PINs that only you know.
• Unless you reveal this information to someone else you will be the only person able to access your medical record via the online system.

• If you find any errors or missing information in your medical record you can tell the Receptionist or discuss it with the Practice Manager or your GP.
• If you see someone else’s medical information you should immediately exit from the system and inform the practice staff.

•        The patient has an active role in their own healthcare
•        You may be in another country and taken ill. You can decide to allow the
•        doctors to access your medical records
•        If you wish and only if you wish, you can share your records with a carer or relative
•        The information may use technical terms and abbreviations that you are unsure about
•       Some of the information may be difficult to understand.
•        You may read something in your records that you find upsetting.