Am I allowed a copy of my blood test results?

[KatyMac]

Or do I need permission from my GP to have a copy?

[MoaningMingeWhingesAgain]

You don't need permission. They can charge you for photocopying

[cakeymccakington]

no, you are entitled to any medical records/info about you

[KatyMac]

Ithought so

The receptionist or nurse & I had words as apparently I need 'permission'

[PoshPenny]

I have always been told that The doctors permission is needed before they can issue me with them. it's always been OK actually and I have got them. however, I plan on my next visit to ask at my consultation for him to print off the blood tests. If he doesn't like it well it's tough... I want the ones going back to 2011 as I want to try and track my decline if I can whilst being told all was "normal"

[PoshPenny]

I wonder if it is just so that yr doctor gets to know you're asking for this kind of stuff?

[KatyMac]

Yeah - 'cos they are always bloody normal aren't they

[KatyMac]

He told me to get them (he wants me to compare them to my brother's who lives in Sweden)

[RockinD]

Under the Data Protection Act, you results are your data and you are fully entitled to a copy, or to have the figures verbally.

Knowing this has been of tremendous help to me. I now have a spreadsheet with all my results going back to 2006, which helped me to pinpoint a decline that doctors looking at one set of results at a time on screen had missed completely.

There shouldn't be an issue with getting this information, but you might have to be firm about it.

[KatyMac]

Yes - If I don't get immediate co-operation on Monday morning - I think I might start to be a pain

[Pobblewhohasnotoes]

I've got an under active thyroid and the GP always shows me my blood results. My consultant always gives me copies too.

[KatyMac]

GP printed them out for me straight away - he was surprised I didn't have a copy already