Are childhood vaccination records accurate?

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I've just registered online at my surgery so that I can order repeat prescriptions. I looked at my vaccination record and there are only a couple of entries to say that I was given the vaccination. I was born in the 1970s so not everything was given then, but even so.

I had a strange flu like illness when I was about 8 and with foster parents. I couldn't weight bear or walk properly and had to go to bed and was off school. I didn't receive any medical attention because I was fostered for money and was badly neglected. I'm now wondering if it was polio because I've been left with leg problems and just assumed I was clumsy or have dyspraxia.

Does anyone know if these records are accurate? My mother was a proper bad person and it's not unreasonable to think I wasn't vaccinated.

No they aren’t accurate as not everything given was recorded.

I wonder how I could find out. I know I had some vaccinations as a teenager, including polio.

You can’t find out if they’re not documented in your GP records.

I was born in the 70’s and it was rubella and TB that we were offered at high school.

Your online record will not be accurate if you are over 25 as most of it will be recorded on your paper notes.

Ring the surgery and ask. They will be able to give you an answer in a few weeks. (Sometimes paper records are stored off site)

We received polio vaccine orally at high school. Also born in (late) 70s, UK.

There's loads missing off my digital record - I'm 44.