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Calling all 11-17 year olds |
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Your views about electronic healthcare records are needed
The Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health want to know what young people’s views are about electronic healthcare records so they can let healthcare professionals know what you think.
Young people aged between 11 and 17 years are needed to complete a web-based questionnaire. You can take part in the survey by using the following link www.documentcapture.co.uk/eforms/ehrsurvey.htm It’s confidential and will only take about 10 minutes. The deadline for responses is 11th November 2007 – so we haven’t got long. The RCPCH and RCN are keen to ensure that they obtain the views of a wide range of young people, so would be grateful if you could ask any young people aged 11-17 years who you have contact with to complete the questionnaire.
More about electronic health care records
Almost everyone in the UK has a medical record that contains details of their illnesses, medicines and treatments. Until now medical records were kept at a doctors' surgery in a paper file.
- From 2008 medical records will become electronic. This means they will be stored on a computer system.
- The paper file was kept by your doctor's surgery and anyone else who wanted to see them had to ask your doctor first.
- The electronic healthcare record will mean it will not be kept in one location. It will also mean that they can be accessed more quickly and depending on circumstances by more people such as family and other medical staff.
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