Our core purpose is to work with people and lead communities in improving their mental and physical health and wellbeing for a better life; through delivering excellent and responsive prevention, diagnosis, early intervention, treatment and care.
When asking to access a health record, you are requesting personal information either about yourself or another person who you are representing – this could be a relative, someone you are a carer for, or a friend. These types of request fall under the Data Protection Act, or the Access to Health Records Act for deceased persons. Our process follows the principles of these acts.
We hold the following types of health records:
If you are the patient requesting your own records, please choose from one of the following:
If you are…
...and you wish to access their records, please contact us using the contact information below. Please provide brief details of your request and we will send you a form to complete, either by post or by email.
If you are the relative, carer or friend of a deceased patient you can complete the online deceased patients health record access request form or download a copy of the request for access to a deceased patients health record form, complete by hand and then forward back you us by post or email (see details below).
Telephone: 01332 623760 ext 33760
Email: dhcft.accesstoahealthrecord@nhs.net
Postal address: Access to a Health Record IM&T and Records Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Kingsway House East Kingsway site Derby DE22 3LZ
Please note: We are only able to consider for release NHS documents and not information from Education, Social Services and private healthcare providers.
The Data Protection Act asks that we should try and respond to requests for access to health records within 21 calendar days and we always do our best to comply with this. However the Act also says that if we are unable to meet a one month deadline we should write to you at that time giving you more information about the reason for the delay.
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