Medical reports, Medical record requests and GP letter requests.

For medical reports, access to medical record requests and GP letter requests, there is up to a 6 week turn around time. This excludes the bank holidays and weekends. You will need to sign a consent form regardless of the type of request, you will be asked to sign a consent form and put the request in writing. Without this the request will not be started. 

Some forms and letter requests require a payable fee. Please ask us at reception for more information about this. These requests are done outside of NHS hours and are considered to be private work. This means the requests are done outside the GPs clinical hours. Please do not book an appointment to have a form completed as you will be directed back to reception and can put a delay in your request being completed. 

Medical records are free to access and have copies off, depending on what the request is effects the waiting time, for brief summaries they can take up to a few days or a week however a full copy of records can take up to 6 weeks.