17 yo DD Dr appt - what to do?

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Had a text earlier this evening from surgery saying DD has arranged a Dr appt tom am, not booked with my knowledge - am assuming DD didn't realise I would get message. She has started seeing her first serious boyfriend about 3 months ago who I really like and I've been giving them 'space' together whilst also including him in suppers round the table etc.
She's already on the pill due to period issues n we've had various convos about contraception.
Am assuming appt is something to do with the relationship, just not sure how to bring it up? Any advice please..

It’s not impossible

You either register at the new one and then you will change over

Or you register as a temporary resident. You remain a patient at your main surgery and have whatever treatment your need at surgery 2 then they will close your registration

With option 2 GP surgeries do not get any income from these patients but it works for travelling patients, uni students etc

@Menora
We don’t let staff register at the surgery they work in no, but if they were already a patient and don’t want to leave we restrict their access to their own record

Is this really the case? Sorry off topic but just thought this was interesting as surely you should be allowed to view your own medical records?

If you want to view your record you have to ask officially. Either through registering for the NHS app/online access where you will see a summary of your record, or in person there is a process where a GP will look over the record and then have to redact any 3rd party info/check for safeguarding info etc.

So if you work in a surgery and you willy nilly open your own record whenever you feel like it, this is really unprofessional of the surgery and potentially dangerous. You could print yourself repeat prescriptions or influence info on your record - which is a factual account of your medical care

someone did actually do that now hence all access restricted for registered staff. You don’t own your own medical record, although you can have access to it it does not belong to you

Oh op you’re being a brill parent!

She’s very lucky to have you! I hope I’m close to my DD at this age.

@Maddison12

I don’t understand why this is confusing. You couldn’t walk into your GP surgery tomorrow and look at your medical record why should staff get the privilege that patients do not?

Oh ok, I actually didn't think about the prescription/ safeguarding side of things. Makes sense now

Is this really the case? Sorry off topic but just thought this was interesting as surely you should be allowed to view your own medical records?

You're not allowed to view everything on your records.

If, for example, a member of your family called me up and said they were concerned about your wellbeing for reasons X and Y, I can record that on your notes as a third party consultation, which is hidden, so even if you get online access to your notes, you will never know that that phone call took place.

@ViaSacra I’m not sure how I feel about that. What if a 3rd party made a vexatious call about concerns that ended up being unfounded, is the patient is just supposed to deal with this being on their medical record?

It depends on what the call says but it could stay there, just the patient would not see it. If a call came in you would look at it first to make a decision as to whether it was just a nasty allegation. If a man phoned worried about his wife’s MH, it may be documented he called about her MH but as it’s a factual record it would just be the fact he called. As you wouldn’t be able to discuss it with him, there wouldn’t be anything else written. We should not write anything contentious on a medical record. I wouldn’t write anything that was my subjective opinion.

Other examples that are most common are domestic violence accusations, issues in divorcing parents (often on the child’s records), concerns about elderly people’s MH or parents worried about their adult child’s MH issues. You document the call something like: ‘daughter called concerned about mother’s memory problems’

I keep separate records on safeguarding between professionals that does not ever go on the patient record

She might not be registered at the one where she’s getting the appointment. I had a GP appointment and was told I needed urgent blood tests, my surgery couldn’t fit me in but made an apppointment the next morning at a different surgery in the same town, they’re not linked either. I didn’t even know it was possible, got a lot of strange looks as a queue of people heard me check in and say I wasn’t registered but walk right through whilst they got denied appointments when they were!

I was registered at the surgery my mum worked at back in the days before it was all computers