To be quite honest, on the basis of the rubbish I got (!!), no its not worth it. I got mine more out of curiosity than anything else, and to prove a point after having a discussion with the receptionist who seemed to think I was asking for the crown jewels!!
If you've had no serious problems, I wouldn't bother. As has already been said you don't need them here; you can tell any doctor your kids medical history, so it probably isn't worth the agro. Mine not only had notes in it belonging to someone else, it had stuff that was the opposite of what had been told to me in the past - doc saying "I told patient ......XX" when I know he told me ".....YY", and completely inaccurate records of stuff I'd told him! Waste of time, and quite scary when you think your treatment has been based on it!

Just one thing to add to this discussion - the situation over here re doctors is that you get to choose which doctor you go to see. So if you settle in one place, you can go & find a local doctor that you like (try them all if you want! ) & then continue to see them as long as you want to. Most doctors work out of a practice, if your particular doctor is sick or away etc, you can usually see someone else in the same practice who then has access to your medical history. However if for some reason you cant see your doctor, you can go anywhere else if you need to eg. if you get sick while on holidays, if the doctors surgery is closed for some reason etc. Also, you can almost always see your doctor the same day, its fairly unusual to have to wait from an appointment (unless you call at 3pm or something). I have just called for an appointment for myself (its 9am here) & my appoitment is for 3.30pm today.

Lastly, over here, if you move, your doctor will send your medical notes to your new doctor. When you find a new doctor ask the receptionist to fill in a form for transfer of your medical notes, they will send it off to your old doctor & they will get transferred. I was with my old doctor for about 13 years, have now transferred the history to my new one as well as the kids (very handy if you have more than one child & cant remember which kid had which illness or reaction to a drug :eek: ).

When you have an X-Ray over here, you take the x-ray's home, and keep them. The Doctor will ask you to bring them back with you for any follow up consultations.

If you have any special concerns about existing health, I would get the UK doctor to write a brief note for any OZ Doctor to look at. Ours did that when we moved over last time.

You don't need to bring doctors notes from the UK, don't waste your time or money. Aussie doctors are simply not interested.

Bring the kids' immunisation records though.

You really don't need your records unless someone has, or has had, a major problem. You do however need a record of the kids immunisations - my Drs just did a print out of those for me.
They also did a print out of my last page of notes for me - half of which I couldn't understand anyway!

Loopy