Patient Care

Medical Records

Your medical record contains the history of your illness, care and treatment and includes all correspondence in relation to your medical care together with results of tests carried out. The confidentiality of your medical records is governed by Hospital policies and legislation such as the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts.

Information we record may be used for a number of reasons not directly associated with your care. Some of the uses involve passing of information to other agencies. Many of the uses do not require you to be identified and wherever possible, you name and address will be removed. The following are examples:

• We are required by law to inform the local Registrar's Office about births or deaths.
• To help protect the health of the general public by notification of certain infectious diseases
• To carry out clinical audit which will assist in assessing health trends for future patient treatment.