Yesterday I had a phone call from someone from out GP surgery.
The lady said she wasn’t sure if I was aware but there is a new law which states when a child is over the age of 11 (dd is 13) the parent is no longer entitled to access their online medical records or discuss any details with the surgery without their child’s consent.
She said she was ringing all parents of children over 11 to let them know.
I said I was totally unaware and did that mean that say, when the other week I rang to get the results of dd’s recent blood test results (she’s a bit anaemic) the surgery wouldn’t give me the details. She said that’s correct, I would either need written consent from dd, or she calls herself or she would need to be sitting with me and give verbal consent.
DD is obviously happy to give consent and this doesn’t particularly worry me but I hadn’t heard this and can’t find much online.