Any Working in a GP Practice? Query

[booksandmags]

If any of you work in a GP practice can you answer this query please?

If a GP makes a referral to another health professional via the patient records "portal" is it in a letter form or email that could be downloaded and sent to someone as a hard copy or email for them to have a look at?

So, for example, if I wanted to look at the referral for someone who had given me permission to view their medical records could I see it as a hard copy document or email? Thanks

Are you talking about EMIs records?

No, they use a different system. I've been told that the referral was made via a portal. I assume the referral would be attached to the patient notes somehow. Might be system1

Who is the referral to?
What speciality?

There's no "portal" on systmone or Vision

Depends who referral was to….every service has their own referral making pathway……could it have been via nhs.net email…..then just the copy of the referral added to the records?

It will be saved to the patient record. The patient can definitely ask for a copy of the referral. I work in the same office as the medical secretary and have heard her give this advice several times.

For my own referrals I can see the forms online through the nhs app.

Usually it’s a form that can easily be formatted in to a pdf.

No they won’t send you confidential patient records electronically. They will print it out.

It could be. I'm sure there's a way I could have seen it. I just wanted to make sure that all the right information was provided as things haven't been dealt with properly before

It depends on where you're being referred to, but if it's to hospital outpatients it will probably be an e-referral.

More info here

digital.nhs.uk/services/e-referral-service

Ah right, thanks for all your replies

The referral will be in the patient's notes and therefore is visible on the NHS app.

I don't know whether this helps, but I found a copy of a referral letter (for a barium swallow) in the documents folder on the NHS app just earlier this week. I opened it and was able to download it as a PDF.

I'm not sure what you can see on the app. I'm not sure it'd be helpful for the patient to see some reports relating to scans etc as they aren't written in a way a lay person can understand.

Still, we're entitled to see them.