My online medical records from 50 years ago

[Sailingtelltales]

Hoping a health professional can answer this for me.

Logged into my online medical records info on my surgery website.

Checking my own childhood vaccinations history going back decades.

But does ‘Due On’ mean they were due on the date shown and consequently issued, ie I’ve had them.

Or they were due, but never issued to me??

Is there another page for given dates? Your surgery is likely to be the only place you’ll be able to get a definitive answer, hopefully they’re helpful!

I think it means each date is when you reached the age you'd expect to have them. However that's for the current vaccination schedule- would have been very different when you were a child. There's no way to tell from that record whether you had them or not. Do you suspect you weren't taken for whatever was on offer at the time? What do your parents remember?

@MeepleMe my mother isn’t a reliable route to ask.

I could ask surgery but I’d have to submit a file, not urgent. So just wondering I’d heres a HP here to answer.

That cannot be vaccines actually given as several of them had not been invented on the dates stated. It seems to be a schedule of when immunisation should be received if the current schedule were in place when you were born. Which it wasn't.

What system is this? Can everyone in the UK access their medical records online?

I seem to remember mine is the same (am 50). I suspect those records haven't been added and I know my dm had me in for every vaccination I was supposed to have.

How does someone go about accessing their medical records online?

As per previous poster, this is some automated system telling you when they were due based on currently available vaccines and vaccination schedules. It’s not a record that You had them. There’s a reasonable chance those records won’t exist after all these years.

Our GP uses SystmOne (or something like that) and it comes as part of the online system access.

@Runningdownthathill - check with your GP surgery. Mine has an app where you can request your records.

This has been generated by a computer to highlight when your vaccinations would be due after your date of birth. None of it actually means anything. For example the Men B vaccine wasnt used in the UK until 2015 so you certainly didn't get it in the 60s. This isn't a record of your vaccine history.

@IjustbelieveinMe

It’s called SystemOnline. Some GP surgeries enable patients to view their historic medical records, test results, order prescriptions, etc you just request logins from the surgery.

It will have everything on there though, so be prepared for cans of worms if there’s past stuff that happened in your childhood you were unaware of. I’m using it to find out why I spent 3 months in hospital as a young teen (mother is cagey about it).

50 years ago, vaccinations were recorded on cards. Online records did not exist.

What’s happened here is that the current vaccination schedule has been uploaded onto every patient’s online page. It has no relevance to you at all, unless you have a new vaccination which will then be recorded.

I found out through my online records recently that I wasn't vaccinated as a child. I asked my mum who said she didn't take me as she didn't want to make me cry!

well it cant be right some of the vaccs wenret even around then

That’s just a schedule. Showing when they would have been due. It’s not your actual history.

[quote Sailingtelltales]@IjustbelieveinMe

It’s called SystemOnline. Some GP surgeries enable patients to view their historic medical records, test results, order prescriptions, etc you just request logins from the surgery.

It will have everything on there though, so be prepared for cans of worms if there’s past stuff that happened in your childhood you were unaware of. I’m using it to find out why I spent 3 months in hospital as a young teen (mother is cagey about it).[/quote]
Thanks for that. I am in Australia and am interested in my own medical history but obviously am not registered with a Dr in the UK so I guess I won't have access.

Should add I am from the UK!

It says at the top that is the current vaccination schedule so it has put the dates you would have been due for them if that was the schedule back then but, clearly, it wasn't!
The only way you could find out would be to ask the GP surgery

Maybe there's a data-entry person, sitting with all the paper notes, diligently entering them into a big database somewhere. Actually, it sounds like a job I'd enjoy. Though I bet it would be hard to read the doctor's handwriting. And after 50+yrs the files would be all foosty and dusty and any rubber bands would have perished. Oh yes, I'd love that job.

Actually, just read what it says at the top of the picture. It actually tells you it's just the current schedule, and that the patient may not have received these.

Unless you have the vaccination card at home, I suspect this information is lost forever. I’m similar age and have no idea what vaccinations I had as a child. I remember having the TB one at school, and, I think, polio on sugar cubes.

That online system sounds interesting!

I've got a booklet recording every vaccination I ever had: date, illness, substance used going way back to my birth (not UK)

That list is very deceiving. Meningitis ACWY has only been given routinely for the last 5 years or so, so unless you’re 21 or younger you don’t need it.
This is vaccines due, not given.

If you google ‘vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status’ that will tell you what you need to have had for your age group.