Patient Access to Records: What you need to know

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THIS EPISODE: Beware - patients can READILY read what you've entered in their notes!
Munir Adam talks to Dr Devin Gray, a GP very much involved with patient access to records, and in fact, despite not being their employee, was invited by NHS England to present the subject. Q: How ready do you feel that patients will readily be able to read (almost) everything you document?
URGENT! For EMIS practices, the deadline to opt-in to prospective records access is 20-09-23, to go-live on 4th October using this form. After this , practices will need to manually edit. For TPP it's by 31/10.

SPECIAL THANKS to: Dr Devin Gray, GP and Clinical Lead for Digital First (Wandsworth)

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Chapters

1. Patient Access to Records: What you need to know (00:00:00)

2. Why we might be worried about this (00:00:49)

3. Our relationship with the care record (00:08:54)

4. Why it's happening and how practices should manage this (00:11:26)

5. Documenting challenging encounters (00:24:05)

6. Redaction: When to withhold information (00:28:01)

7. Data protection in the hands of the patient? (00:36:13)

8. What's happening in other countries? (00:38:50)

9. Don't use the record as catharsis (00:40:05)

10. Tips for documenting appropriately (00:41:26)

11. Disclaimer (00:52:14)