Just opened a letter from a consultant rheumatologist and it recounts details of a call to my gp, which is all well and good, I asked her to call or write as GP practice weren’t understanding how difficult it is for me to get appointments - I’m disabled and mobility is tricky.
However it also says in this letter that the gp told the rheum about a mental health assessment (a while ago), and she actually gave what she’s called ‘a possible diagnosis of...’?!?!? Now, this diagnosis was never formalized and in fact I felt was extremely wrong and followed an awful appointment which was highly unprofessional. I’d been back to the gp about this one appointment at the time, although was a different gp from now, and he’d agreed with me I shouldn’t take it further as I had found it very triggering and also was pretty unprofessional. I decided not to make an official complaint as I didn’t want to engage further with it.
I was really shocked to see this upsetting experience hauled up again and in an unrelated context.
Is this an ok sharing of my confidential medical information? As I certainly didn’t give permission to share this? And then to share this in a medical letter which then anyone in the trust can access?
I’m really shocked by this as no diagnosis was agreed and I dropped it without knowing I needed to complain to get it off my records???
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Is this a breach of my medical confidentiality?
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WellThisIsShit · 23/10/2017 16:42
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