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Family Practice Advance Access originally published online on January 17, 2005
Family Practice 2005 22(2):141-143; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh710
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Editorial

Copying letters to patients—will it happen?

Ruth Boaden and Claire Harris

Health Organisations Research Centre, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester M15 6PB, UK

Email: Ruth.Boaden@mbs.ac.uk

Received 23 September 2004; Accepted 1 October 2004.

Boaden R and Harris C. Copying letters to patients—will it happen? Family Practice 2005; 22: 141–143.

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The requirement for clinicians from all fields to offer patients copies of letters written about them to other health professionals was stated in the NHS Plan1 and has been the subject of a series of pilot studies and a set of guidelines.2 However, in the light of the fact that it has not been explicitly included in the detail of the new GP contract,3 it is worth exploring whether as ‘good practice’ there is a strong case for copying letters to patients, given that it is not a contractual requirement for GPs. The context of the development of other national initiatives around patient involvement and IT may also lead to the requirement for copying letters being overtaken by technological developments—or will it?

The origin of the ‘copying letters to patients’ idea is claimed by Cyril Chantler,4 who linked it with the concept of patients being able to retain a summary . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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