GP has coded my surgery / procedure incorrectly

[GPqn23]

I can see from the NHS app that my GP surgery has coded my recent surgery incorrectly. The procedure sounds similar to what I had done, and to be fair I can understand how the mistake was made by a GP, but it isn’t at all what I had done.

How long is acceptable to wait for it to be corrected once the practice has been made aware?

A week or so - the reception staff will obviously have some stuff on their to-do list, but longer than that and I think it has dropped off (or never made it on there in the first place).

I’d give it a couple of weeks - it might be sent straight to the relevant GP to update next time they’re in or it might be dealt with by whoever is in that day, or raised at a weekly meeting etc.
Is it definitely a GP that added the code? Ours are mostly done by admin staff if it’s based on hospital letters.

Ah ok I won’t stress then! Yes, it is the GPs who code at this practice.

The one thing that is concerning me is I will need a sick note extension at some stage. I’m worried the GP may look at the incorrect procedure and wonder why I would need an extension, as it’s not half as significant a procedure as what I had done. Is this a valid worry?

Yes you need your records to be correct as we have no idea why having them correct could be important in the future

Yes, that is my concern about the sick note.

If your GP feels unable to issue a sick note without speaking to you, they would normally contact you to discuss your request, rather than just rejecting it.

That said, normally the hospital should issue a sick note for the duration of your illness. If you've had an operation which is likely to require, say, 8 weeks off, then your surgeon or their junior doctor should issue a sick note for the whole 8 weeks. Are you being seen in outpatients clinic soon? If so I'd suggest you ask them for your sick note extension.

My GP corrected it there and then when I was having a consultation.

My records showed I chewed 1.6kg of chewing tabacco a day! I've never tried it in my life, but that seems an excessive amount to me. I finally worked out it was the date that I stopped smoking regular cigarette's in Jan 2016!

I hope you get it sorted.

Hmm, I didn't know that. The hospital said that they only offer an 'X week sick note as standard' and that I should get an extension from my GP as I would need longer. I did ask for a longer note at the time but I was just told that X weeks is 'what they do here.'

My outpatient appointment isn't for another couple of months unfortunately, due to waiting lists/strikes.

Then the hospital is in breach of their contract. If I were your GP I'd report them.

This winds me up, and I'm a surgeon.

If I'm doing an operation, I think it's pretty reasonable to expect me to know how long its likely to take before you can work, and perfectly reasonable to expect that a GP may not know depending on the procedure.

What is completely unreasonable is having a policy to issue a 2 week sick note as standard, knowing that will require both am extension, and either a appointment or task time from an already busy GP, who it will take 4 times as long to do the task as theyll have to look up all the records, which, may not have even arrived from the hospital.

Wow, I had no idea. The sick note wasn’t signed by the surgeon but someone on the ward, I’m not sure if a nurse or a doctor.