Understanding Your Health: A Patient’s Jargon Buster Visiting your GP, getting test results, or reading a medical letter can sometimes feel confusing. You might see unfamiliar words, abbreviations, or medical terms for diagnoses and conditions. The good news? You don’t need a medical degree to understand your care. This guide explains common terms, staff roles, … Continued
World Autism Acceptance Week This week is World Autism Acceptance Week. The annual event has been running since 2007 when it was first launched as Autism Awareness Week. The aim is to help more people understand autism and what living with the condition means for the 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK. We … Continued
Further Updated Practice Statement: Medical Records Over the last month, there have been several changes and updates to NHS England’s plan to change how patients can access their medical records. It centres around a proposed change to automatically give all patients full access to their prospective (or future) medical records. This change was due to … Continued
Updated Practice Statement: Medical Records would like to issue an update on proposed changes to access to medical records as there have been developments since our initial statement early last week. The proposal was that all patients would have complete prospective access to their medical records from 1st November. As we said last week, significant … Continued
Statement: Medical Records You may be aware that NHS England has determined that from 1st November 2022 all patients will have complete prospective access to their medical records, with surgeries being required to enable this en masse. This instruction also includes automatically provisioning prospective access for patients who turn 16 years of age. Whilst we … Continued
Meet the NHS App The NHS App is a secure and straightforward way to access a range of NHS services from your smartphone. It’s free to download and use and available on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store. Download for Apple devices Download for Android devices To use the App, you need to … Continued
