Removing something off NHS record

[NotMyCat]

Can it actually be done? It's a really stupid thing!
Basically my record says I'm asthmatic, and I'm not. So every year or so I get a letter, phone call and text chasing me for an asthma review and medication review. I tell them I'm not asthmatic and all fine, until the next year
Thought it had been removed and got a letter last week... asthma clinic

I think if you write to or email the practice manager at your GP, they should be able to help.

I have repeatedly told my GP I’ve never been a smoker. Medical records still say I smoked. No matter how many times I ask them to correct my records they don’t. I wish I could provide a more helpful answer.

In both cases above (the smoking and the asthma) the error on the medical records may badly affect you if you ever had to make a claim on health/life/travel insurance as the insurer may consider you to have withheld information (incorrectly).
Medical records fall under GDPR so you have rights which mean records have to be accurate and you have the right to have any errors rectified. The ICO website has lots of information on “right to rectification” and processes to follow including draft letters.
ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-your-data-corrected/

Yes I had a totally inaccurate BMI reading removed off my record when I went to my GP for an appointment once. They'd mistyped my weight in a year earlier. The nurse did it on her computer as I was in the appointment.

@Zzzzfthg

Yes I had a totally inaccurate BMI reading removed off my record when I went to my GP for an appointment once. They'd mistyped my weight in a year earlier. The nurse did it on her computer as I was in the appointment.

That's what they did last time I was in so pre covid, and now it seems to have sprung back up again!

Ask the surgery to add a code to your record "Asthma resolved", will take them 2 seconds to do and will stop them inviting you for asthma checks.
If you've ever been prescribed an inhaler (like I was when I had an allergy to my kitten) then this will add you to their asthma register, and you'll get recall letters. Until the asthma resolved code is added, then they'll stop.

I saw the screen once at an appointment and it said I was allergic to aspirin-I don't think I've ever taken it let alone had an allergic reaction that needs recording!!

@SusielouP

I saw the screen once at an appointment and it said I was allergic to aspirin-I don't think I've ever taken it let alone had an allergic reaction that needs recording!!

Mine still says anaphylactic to eggs and milk but I have outgrown that now. Although they don't contact me about allergies so I'll cope with that

I had "smoker" removed from mine. Interestingly I don't get called for an asthma check up (I assumed it was because I haven't had a prescription in years) but I do get called for a flu vaccination.

Mine put my weight at '80' stone and at my last appointment I got congratulated for my weight loss They didn't update my records though...

As well as the GP system, the national spine needs to be updated as well and then promulgated down to any other system - hospitals, clinics etc
I'd be tempted to write to PALS and ask for the relevant CCG team (digital information?) to make the changes required for all local and national systems to be corrected, and what the correction needs to be
Then a couple of months later I might do a Freedom of Information request to check?

We had something similar my son has severe allergies and they had been confirmed when he was a baby and he had yearly bloods to check when he could do a food challenge

I sent the allergy plan etc into school but they decided they thought it wasn’t true and contacted the drs ???!!!! Said they suspected I’d said it just for attention and special treatment etc
The admin assistant at the gp looked on his notes and didn’t see any of the proof and referred to a nurse who did the same wrote back to the school nurse saying no record of allergies 🤦‍♀️
We then had social services swoop in and a letter was put on all the dc notes and ours saying about these suspicions

I fought to have a meeting with everyone as I had all the letters and results and I wanted the letter off our medical records.
It was accepted that he genuinely had allergies but we were told they couldn’t take anything off the records as ‘it was a professionals opinion at that time’

I have the same issue - only my record says I have cystic fibrosis

It been going on for years and I even got told to shield during covid. I've had it 'removed' from the system but it just goes back on 💁🏼‍♀️

I'm sure whoever transferred the paper records onto a computer found the job very , very boring - however it is worrying when asked 'are you still taking X" ( I've never taken X) or 'how's your diabetes?" ( I'm not diabetic) etc etc.
Followed by a quick Dr shrug of the shoulders!

On the plus side apparently my tonsils have miraculously reappeared , after having been taken out decades ago.

I've given up trying to get my records corrected.

@jeannie46

I'm sure whoever transferred the paper records onto a computer found the job very , very boring - however it is worrying when asked 'are you still taking X" ( I've never taken X) or 'how's your diabetes?" ( I'm not diabetic) etc etc. Followed by a quick Dr shrug of the shoulders!

On the plus side apparently my tonsils have miraculously reappeared , after having been taken out decades ago.

I've given up trying to get my records corrected.

That level of incompetence sounds incredibly dangerous