Can a private school access child's NHS medical records? ADHD diagnosis

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Questionsquestions12 · 20/08/2023 12:15

Hello

DD was diagnosed a year ago and we tried some medication but it didn't help much, and over the last 6 months or so we feel symptoms are not really impacting/have gone. In hindsight, many of our concerns and DD's symptoms were from stress of moving house and changing schools.

We haven't disclosed the ADHD diagnosis to new senior school because we don't feel it's relevant anymore. Can the school access medical records (haven't read through the pages and pages of T&Cs but the acceptance form did say that we should declare any health information.

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JenWillsiam · 21/08/2023 15:42

Ohthatsabitshit · 21/08/2023 14:38

Apologies if I was unclear. The OP is concerned about a school accessing her child’s nhs files and diagnosis without her or the child’s consent and that was the focus of my responses on this thread. You can of course share information about a child from one setting to another if it’s appropriate and or if the parents/child give consent. OP is interested in the line between medical info being shared and educational info being shared, or that was my reading of the situation.

In my experience there’s a fair amount of confusion about this both in school and among the parent population.

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I’m aware - but the other posted said that you couldn’t. I was making it clear that’s wrong.

Ohthatsabitshit · 21/08/2023 16:34

To be clear you shouldn’t share medical diagnosis without consent and you categorically cannot access nhs medical records. Hth

JenWillsiam · 21/08/2023 19:15

Ohthatsabitshit · 21/08/2023 16:34

To be clear you shouldn’t share medical diagnosis without consent and you categorically cannot access nhs medical records. Hth

Again not entirely accurate. If there are safeguarding concerns it will be shared.

Ohthatsabitshit · 21/08/2023 19:35

If there are safeguarding concerns all sorts of different processes will be actioned. This is an OP who is moving her daughter to a new school and doesn’t think that her diagnosis is relevant any more. She could have refused the diagnosis in the first place, she could have not consented to it being shared with school.

I think on the whole teachers are witnesses to behaviour and fill out questionnaires for Drs to add to a picture of a child. They aren’t part of the diagnostic team and have no input beyond their observations in the what is diagnosed. They do not get to choose who that diagnosis is shared with nor decide if sharing is a good or bad policy.

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