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??

I suspect this is some sort of 'auto template' sheet.

These are vaccinations which are routine now and your date of birth has been 'plugged into' an ideal schedule.

You could quite possibly ask your GP what vaccinations you have had, or you could pay for them privately.

I came across the same schedule the other day only mine has a combination of due dates and actual dates given (born in the 80s). The given ones are pretty accurate I believe as it includes ones I had as an adult before going abroad as well as my childhood ones. Some of the ones listed as due I know I didn't have (missed out on TB for example as I was home educated and it was given in school). But I'd imagine in your case it's probably a combination of things which weren't on offer at the time or where records aren't available.

@Gingernaut

I suspect this is some sort of 'auto template' sheet.

These are vaccinations which are routine now and your date of birth has been 'plugged into' an ideal schedule.

You could quite possibly ask your GP what vaccinations you have had, or you could pay for them privately.

This.

The MMR for example didn’t come in until way after I was the applicable age, but the online record makes it look as though I missed out on it. I was scratching my head over it for quite a while until I realised.

Sorry I’ve just realised that yours lists ONLY “Due on” dates and no actual completed innoculations.

If your mother is flakey, I would check with the surgery whether the record is likely to be accurate.

Did your mum conceivably have anti-vaccine type views? Or a tendency to neglect things?

I’ve had this, the only ones I know I had were the rubella and tb as can remember from age. Then I assumed the rest were given but spoke to my elder sis and she confirmed we didn’t have any childhood jabs as our so called mother didn’t bother

I agree with the others - I am roughly the same age as you and had the basics of diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough. Polio on a sugar cube.

No meningitis, no rotavirus. Wasn't offered.

If you're trying to get to the bottom of a hospital stay then the only option would be to make an a formal request through the GP or practice manager.

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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]
Don't you remember why you were in hospital?

But about the vaccine thing - it's likely the record no longer exists. They would have been recorded on cards and may not have been done at the GP's surgery. I grew up in quite a rural area so mine were done by someone (HV, district nurse?) in the village hall. My mum had a card listing them, but that fell apart years ago.

Hi OP, I work in medical records and as others have said this is definitely a generic schedule rather than your actual vaccination dates. If you were vaccinated as a child 50 years ago you would likely have had 3 doses of Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (whooping cough) & Polio (DTP triple + Polio) as a young baby, or possibly DT (double) + polio (minus the Pertussis as some parents had concern about it and opted out). You would possibly have had a measles vaccine and a rubella vaccine separately but no MMR until the 1980s if at all.
I suggest you email your surgery and ask if someone could check your paper records to see if your original vaccination card is in there and then ask them to update the electronic data accordingly.

I am 60. Has someone seriously gone through my medical records since I was born to upload them in their entirety.

I'd quite like up to date access for current stuff, say over the last five years but have no interest in things that are decades old.

Sailingtelltales here is a picture of part of my vaccination record from the same system, in the boxes top right in bold are the vaccinations given and dates given if they've been given (and presumably been recorded on the system?) I'm 47 so a similar age to you.

@DisappointedOfNorfolk Thanks for that. Different to mine. Mind you I’ve been registered at several different GP surgeries all over the country since birth so I don’t know if that makes a difference.

I had measles as a kid, and remember queueing up in school for the BCG (?) as a young teenager.

I can’t remember who asked, but yes, my mother is flakey, but no an anti Vanderbilt type as far as I know, just neglectful.

What’s an anti Vanderbilt ! obviously I mean anti vaxxer !

You're welcome mine doesn't show all the vaccinations I know I've had though, because I have had all that were offered, apart from the BCG!