Policy entitled 'Health Records - All Specialties - Core Standards and Procedures'

Refers to: 'Introduction', 'Why do We Maintain Health Records', 'Data Protection - Patient Access to Personal Information Requests', 'Admission Process', 'Clinic Preparation', 'Clinical Reception', 'Clinical Coding Procedures', 'Discharge Procedure', 'Disposal of Records', 'Destruction of Case-Notes', 'Ethnic Group Data Collection', 'Filing Documents in Health Records', 'Filing of Health Records', 'Volumising Procedure', 'Health and Safety in Health Records', 'Health Records Management', 'Housekeeping of Health Records', 'Medical Secretary’s Process', 'Making up Health Records (Patient Notes)', 'Minor Injuries Units', 'Out of Area Treatments', 'Outpatients Appointments', 'Patient Registration', 'Referral Letters', 'Requests for Information over the Telephone', 'Same Name Labels', 'Security of Health Records', 'Telephone Calls-Processing', 'Tracing and Tracking Notes', 'Transportation of Notes', 'Waiting List Statistics', 'Year Labels', 'Missing Health Records' and 'Deceased Records'. Enclosing: 1. Appendix A 'Data Protection Team'. 2. Appendix B 'Search Log for Missing Case Notes'.