Do GPs let you read your notes?

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Hey! I know nobody can say for sure but just wondered if anyone knew.

I was discharged from hospital recently and the treatment I received was quite mixed and confusing. I wanted to read the letter sent from them to my GP surgery. I know I need to do a subject access request to get an actual copy of this, but I don’t really need that I just wanted to quickly glance it to clarify a few things.

I’ve got to go to the doctors for something else anyway later this week, do you think if I ask to see it will they let me? Or is it not really allowed and it needs to be a subject access request? I don’t want to scroll through everything, I was just going to ask if they could call up the discharge letter from the hospital so we could quickly read it and clarify a few things. Not a big deal either way, just wondered if anyone knew! Unfortunately we don’t have the nhs app in Scotland so can’t read it on the nhs app like people in England can.

I don’t ‘expect’ the GP to do anything, ffs. I simply asked if it was possible or not, but thanks for your sarky comment.

and thanks to everyone else who commented and helped. I ended up getting an earlier appointment today and it was all clarified and sorted out. Took a whole 30 seconds and thankfully the GP was great and was more than happy to help.