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I have recently requested my (deceased) mum's medical data from the hospital. I questioned many times the competency of the medical staff during her stay. I believe a capsule endoscopy was not carried out correctly because, as the doctor told me at the time, he was not trained to use the equipment. On the day of the procedure I visited in the evening and the belt that is worn during this process was absent, although the nursing notes that I now have say that the belt was removed during the time when I visited! I was so concerned at the time that I wrote to my mum's GP requesting a second test be done at another hospital. They failed to do this. The procedure notes (now in my possession) written by the nurses are incomplete, there are only three images in the data I have received for a process that takes upwards of 6 hours. I want to see all of the video footage that this procedure would have gathered. The response from the hospital is that 'the video images are not accessible.'
It is not uncommon for test images to be withheld, they may be difficult to copy and the average man in the street would find them meaningless - the expert report on the test should be documented within the notes.
Can I ask what you think you will gain by viewing this test?
Thanks for your response. In the interim I have written again to the hospital and they are now figuring out a way of supplying the video images. These I will have reviewed by a specialist, independent of the the NHS if possible.
You are right, the report of the procedure should have been written up, but it is incomplete and was, by admission, carried out by a consultant that was not trained to use the equipment.
What Data Can The Hospital Withhold?
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