To ask how believable this is

[Beatinghearts]

I’m interested in my childhood mental health nurse. A friend of a similar age said she requested hers and they told her they no longer had them. From the guidance I’ve read they are meant to keep them till someone’s 26th birthday and possibly longer. She requested hers at 24

@Beatinghearts

I’m interested in my childhood mental health nurse. A friend of a similar age said she requested hers and they told her they no longer had them. From the guidance I’ve read they are meant to keep them till someone’s 26th birthday and possibly longer. She requested hers at 24

Personally I think it would be wrong to cross that boundary. They might be married.

I meant notes sorry not nurse.

What's your question? Do you want to read your own notes or are you asking us to tell you whether or not we think your friend is lying?

If you want to read your notes, request them and you'll find out if they're still available. If you're dwelling on whatever your friend said, mind your own business.

Medical records for children should be kept for 7 yrs after their 18th birthday. I’m note sure what you can actually do if they are lost or damaged etc

That is interesting.
In safeguarding (I run a kids camp) we have to keep some things until the child's 25 birthday.
So I would imagine that it is the same.
I am surprised that you friend couldn't access them at 24.

If you want yours, ask.

Twenty six years ago a lot of medical notes were written by hand and relied upon not getting lost before (usually) being typed up onto a computer system at a much later date. So your friend could well be telling the truth even though her notes should still exist.

No I’m asking if I should bother requesting if hers were lost we are from the same area. So would imagine if hers have apparently been lost it’s likely mine have? The notes I’m talking about are probably about 15 years old.

I'm not sure why you're imagining that if they lost one person's notes they must have lost everyone's notes? That's incredibly unlikely. Ask for your notes, that's the only way you'll know if they still exist.

I’ve seen my medical notes - GP sat and went through them with me years ago, I can’t remember why now but it was free of charge - she had three folders through of paperwork going back to birth so at that time about 22 years worth .

Wasn’t very interesting tbh and I’ve had mental health issues for years - I thought it would be but it was mostly dull . The stuff that would have been more interesting written after I turned sixteen or so I wasn’t allowed to see as was deemed detrimental .

It is the case that some get damaged - but have seen notes via work that go back 70 odd years.

I guess because it was a similar time frame. She’s saying that the get rid of them 7 years after they are last written so they won’t have my childhood ones.