Updated: June 2021
Health professionals often receive requests from people who wish to view or obtain copies of their own health records or those of others.
Sometimes these requests come directly from the patient and at other times the requests may be from third parties such as solicitors. You...
Updated: September 2020
The Accessible Information Standard aims to ensure that disabled people have access to information they can understand and the communication support they may need. The Standard applies to service providers across the NHS and adult social care system. As organisations...
Publication 03 July 2015
Updated August 2017
The Accessible Information Standard directs and defines a specific, consistent approach to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing and meeting the information and communication support needs of patients, service users, carers and parents, where...
Practices are reporting an increased number of requests from secondary care and Public Health England to 'flag' patient records for potential problems and bear that particular 'flag' in mind during consultations.
We appreciate that these issues are clinically relevant and should be recorded,...
Derby & Derbyshire Local Medical Committee have the pleasure to announce that we are currently working with VWV | Lawyers & Parliamentary Agents to offer FREE 40 minute legal surgery sessions for levy payers. The sessions will be held here at the LMC office on 26 November 2018 between 11:00...
