Doctors and Medical Records
Oct 29th 2006, 8:52 am
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Doctors and Medical Records
Hi all
do we have to "register" with a doctor here in Oz (in the same way we do in UK)
or do we just pick any Doctor local to us ? If so, where do medical records
get stored - on a central computer somewhere accessible by any doctor ?
Thanks
Neil
do we have to "register" with a doctor here in Oz (in the same way we do in UK)
or do we just pick any Doctor local to us ? If so, where do medical records
get stored - on a central computer somewhere accessible by any doctor ?
Thanks
Neil
Oct 29th 2006, 8:55 am
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Re: Doctors and Medical Records
Originally Posted by clan_campbell
Hi all
do we have to "register" with a doctor here in Oz (in the same way we do in UK)
or do we just pick any Doctor local to us ? If so, where do medical records
get stored - on a central computer somewhere accessible by any doctor ?
Thanks
Neil
do we have to "register" with a doctor here in Oz (in the same way we do in UK)
or do we just pick any Doctor local to us ? If so, where do medical records
get stored - on a central computer somewhere accessible by any doctor ?
Thanks
Neil
No- you dont need to officially register, u can go to many doctors at the one time.
However, I advise that you do register, cos occasionally some practices dont have any room for new patients.
You medical records remain in the UK -ask for a computer summary printout of them from your practice - tho it's unlikely that you'll need even that for your new dr in Oz.
Good luck with everything.
Oct 29th 2006, 9:21 am
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Re: Doctors and Medical Records
Originally Posted by Ozzidoc
No- you dont need to officially register, u can go to many doctors at the one time.
However, I advise that you do register, cos occasionally some practices dont have any room for new patients.
You medical records remain in the UK -ask for a computer summary printout of them from your practice - tho it's unlikely that you'll need even that for your new dr in Oz.
Good luck with everything.
However, I advise that you do register, cos occasionally some practices dont have any room for new patients.
You medical records remain in the UK -ask for a computer summary printout of them from your practice - tho it's unlikely that you'll need even that for your new dr in Oz.
Good luck with everything.
what I mean is, do we get a new set of medical records kept somewhere,
so that say we had a prescription issued by some doctor, a year or so
later, could another doctor could see that prescription had been issued from our records somewhere ?
Thanks
Neil
