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Please send us an e-mail on htmcpatient@nhs.net or contact Katie Rumney on 367-7910 if you need further help
Sign up for Records Access today!
Over 1,600 patients now have access to their records
Patients from birth to over 90 years of age have access to their records
1 in 5 women aged between 25 and 65 now have access to their records
1 in 5 patients with diabetes, cancer, depression or rheumatoid arthritis now have access to their records
1 in 10 children aged up to 4 have access to their records
Often Mums are accessing records for their spouses, children and parents too! (Please note - the patient has to give the pin numbers or passwords to those whom they trust to have access to the record if they wish to do this. It's about families helping each other).
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3) Hand in the CONSENT FORM to the receptionist
Your request will then be processed and an email sent to confirm you have access to your GP electronic health records. Please send an email to htmcpatient@nhs.net if you do not receive a reply within 1 week
 It is important to understand what access to your records means for you and some of the opportunities as well as the challenges that we face. The practice website has a number of resources on it to help you understand these better. You can access these by clicking on some of the links above. It also shows you how to understand your health better and what services there are in the surgery and the wider NHS to help you too. You can see blogs as well as sign up for an e-newsletter if you like too.
 To further understand the issues around Access to Medical Records including what the benefits and challenges of Records Access are, click here. This will help you to easily see on one page a list of the benefits as well as some of the issues so that you can decide on balance what you think is best for you and your loved ones, You can always speak to Katie Rumney on 367-7910 or ask to book an appointment either for a telephone consultation or face to face with Dr Hannan if you prefer. He works at both Haughton Vale surgery and Thornley House Medical Centre.
 Confused about privacy, security, confidentiality and access to health information? Here is Haughton Thrornley Medical Centres' take on these issues written in conjunction with the developer of www.htmc.co.uk.
 You can watch videos on You Tube of Dr Hannan and patient of his Yvonne Bennett talking about issues relating to Records Access and some of the benefits as well as some of the issues. Click here to see a list of the videos. Each video lasts between 2 and 6 mins and can be watched from any computer connected to the internet.
 If you would like to see what having access provides, try our test patient record. This is a fictitious record and you can use the pin numbers and passwords provided. You can then have a go at seeing what patients with records access can do and see. You can have a go at booking an appointment on-line or ordering repeat prescriptions or even having a look at consultations, letters and test results.
 You can also see a PDF of the magazine "Records Access". You will need Adobe Reader to view it which you can get by clicking here.
This was a magazine we produced in June 2007 which you can read through before we had the practice website. It has stories from patients and their relatives as well as facts about Records Access. The practice web site now provides more information which is up-to-date and allows you to interact with the information and also offers you choices eg to sign up for an e-newsletter or write a blog if you like.
There are still some copies of the magazie still available but they will be running out soon! One day they will become a collectors item!
 News item from BBC News on "Web records prove hit with patients". The BBC have been very supportive of what we are trying to do to encourage patients and the public to get access to their records. Here is a news item that you may find interesting to read.
 Click here to download an item from the Today programme on Radio 4 showing further media interest in this ground-breaking initiative.
Also here is a link to a podcast also on Radio 4 about Health & IT which inlcudes an interview with Dr Hannan.
 Click here to listen to an interview on Radio 5 live about Records Access
 We have also attached an item from the Times on 28th June 2008 which you may also find interesting about the ground-breaking work we are doing in the practice and how Yvonne Bennett, a patient at the practice benefits from the service. It talks about patient access to the GP record but also talks about HealthSpace and the Summary Care Record. We are keen for patients to record their own personal information eg height, weight, blood pressure, smoking status etc on HealthSpace so that you can then bring these along too when you go and see the doctor or nurse or go to the hospitals. See the self-care sectin of the website to see how you can do this.
 Article in the Manchester Evening news about "Shipman's former patients go on-line" from October 2006. You can also see a comment left by a patient for others to see too on their blog!
"The Online-Shipman antidote" from 2008 informing patients and the public how the numbers of patients signing up for the service has improved.
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to see a blog by Richard Smith, ex-editor of the British Medical Journal. He wrote this after he saw a talk delivered by Dr Hannan at Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge. Read what others including a number of patients of Haughton Thornley Medical Centres say as they describe how patient access to their own health records has helped them. You can even post your own views here if you like for the rest of the world to see too!
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