Social worker my medical history

[Shouldichangename]

So my family have a social worker as we reached out for help. Anyway social worker looked at My medical back ground and she bought up that I was diagnosed with assertive personality in 1995. I never even knew I was diagnosed with that first i have ever heard. I was only 18 then. Is it even relivent after all that time. ? Is it odd to dig that far back?

Can ask for new one. But its not as simple as that . I think there has to be a really good reason. Definitely not for stuff like this though

It is a bit odd somone knew something before I did. Took me 28 years to know 😅. But its not even realivent today.

@nocoolnamesleft we don't use DCM in this country, we use ICD-10

If your children have lived with domestic violence and parental substsnce misuse, SW might be considering parental mental health because the three together are known as the Toxic Trio - which some consider increase the risk of harm to children.

In case it is helpful to know, op, the "affective" in affective personality disorder just means "relating to emotions" in this context. So, a lifelong tendancy to emotional difficulties.

If sounds like they have accessed a GP summary. They can't poke through all your records though.

Definitely worth a discussion with your GP about whether this is accurate and ask for it to be corrected if they don't think it is right.

@Shouldichangename what's the reason for social services being involved?

I get it's upsetting but it's absolutely normal procedure for information to be requested from any professionals involved with your family as part of an assessment. Schools, health visitor, police, mental health services and anyone else relevant.

Does it say affective or assertive?

No

I know around the age of 16-18 I did have some issues and did not manage emotions very well. But its not Been an issue for at least 26/27 years. I will definitely talk to gp

Says affective

I know its all normal. It's mlt a massive problem. But it did throw me that they looker up as far back as 1993/1995.

It's to do with domestic violence from my son. And we reached out for help . I gave spoken about ot on here. But I name changed. And did not say in my op because I just wanted my actual question answered without complication.

@Shouldichangename social services can't access your NHS records directly. They don't use the same systems and can't have free access.
They would have asked your GP for information about your physical and mental health and any concerns they have.
The GP obviously felt this was relevant to invoice.

Well that's totally wrong

I'm a social services OT and we have The Great North Care Record in the north east where we can see certain information from NHS and vice versa.

OP the social worker won't necessarily have been rooting around that far back, our system shows a list of diagnoses and the dates of them so I imagine it's just like that.

Seems very odd that sw mentioned 1993 and 1995 to me that's rooting. I do think she should have spoken tk me before putting it on the report . My son and daughter had access to that report. Its a small thing but it should still be confidential.

@carleyemma91 that's interesting thanks.

@Shouldichangename that's fair enough if that's how you feel, if you've got a short medical history (or the GP still has it logged as an ongoing issue with no end date) then it'll likely be all on one page with no scrolling required.

I'm certainly not trying to minimise your feelings on this, just trying to shed a bit of light as to how that information might have been viewed by the social worker.

Sorry about the random italics, obviously phone has gone a bit daft.

No it's fine 🙂. I have not been to the gp in many years

No one can access your medical records without your signed consent

They still need the consent of the patient, unless it’s extenuating circumstances and they have a court order

It could have been that I thought i was just signing for the kids . But maybe it was me to .

Could it have been in your pregnancy records OP? I believe they can request those from the HV as they aren’t medical records in the literal sense

No had nothing like that in pregnancy records . I was not pregnant in 1995