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Will the information recorded in psychiatric notes change when patients have the right to read them?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rupert McShane ,
Dermot Rowe  and
David Julier
David Julier
Affiliation:
Littlemore Hospital Oxford OX4 4XN
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Psychiatric patients have had the right to see their notes from 1 November 1991. The ‘Access to Health Records Act (1990)’ makes provision for certain parts of the record to be exempt, including information which may cause serious mental or physical harm to the patient or anyone else. In addition, patients should not have access to information given by third party informants unless appropriate consent has been obtained. The legislation only applies to records made after 1 November 1991. It does not cover informal arrangements where written application for access is not made.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 7 , July 1992 , pp. 404 - 405
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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