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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on January 5, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(2):255-256; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh469
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Rheumatology Vol. 44 No. 2 © British Society for Rheumatology 2005; all rights reserved

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Copying clinic letters to patients

J. Nixon and P. Courtney

Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham NG5 1PB

Correspondence to: J. Nixon. E-mail: jnixon1@ncht.trent.nhs.uk

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Sir, The initiative to copy letters to patients is part of the government's policy to increase patient involvement in their care and treatment. It was referred to in both the NHS Plan [1] and the Kennedy Report, and the subsequent Department of Health guidelines recommend that, from April 2004, patients should be offered a copy of letters written by one health-care professional to another about them. The purpose of copying letters is to empower patients by enabling them to be aware of what is written about them. The right to receive a copy of a letter should be seen as good clinical care. The full report of the working party on copying letters to patients is available in the Department of Health's website at www.doh.gov.uk/patientletters/issues.htm.

For the past 9 months, in our rheumatology department we have been routinely sending patients a copy of the letter that is . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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