Well this one appears to still be functioning so I'll ask again here. Weird.
My GP surgery has made a gynae referral for me after years of peri problems around debilitating heavy periods. I've tried Mirena, tranexamic acid and hrt but none of them have worked. I've also had surgery for an ovarian mass and polyps.
None of this information was on the GP referral note. I know this because in the time it's taken to get an NHS appointment I've paid into Benenden and been given an appointment through them, so I requested my NHS referral letter to send to Benenden.
As I say no relevant clinical information on there. There was two lines under the 'information' heading. One said 'heavy bleeding ' date 2023, the other said 'benzodiazapine dependency' date 1999. That is literally the only information the surgery thought was relevant, from my long complex and painful medical and surgical history. I've never been addicted to benzodiazapine - I was prescribed Xanax in a different country (with different medication rules) around that time, briefly, when I lived in that country. I came back to the UK, asked for a prescription for it from my then doctor, got told it was controlled differently here, never took it again. But somehow this is on my record, is following me a quarter of a century later and is getting sent to a gynae clinic, while actual medical information relevant to a gynae clinic is not??!
I am actually really angry about this and don't know what to do. Should I contact the surgery and request that they send full relevant information? Also how do I get this bloody note took off my record?