Who took medical records when you emigrated.

[Wokos]

Hi.

 

I was just wondering if I need to take our Medical records when we go. Our gp charges £50 each and there is 5 of us!!!!!!!!! Plus it's more stuff to take on the plane.

 

Did anyone take them or not take them and then wished they did.

 

Thanks

 

X

[Mrs Fabricator]

Great question I would be interested in this aswell

 

Becky

[Geraldine]

Hi Wokos, ask your GP for a computer summary only and it should be £10.00 each. Good Luck ..

[Guest]

Unless you've had any major health problems or an ongoing condition I'd not bother. You can tell them what they need to know otherwise.

 

If you have children's red books for immunisation records they are always handy.

[Quoll]

Nope not really important unless you've had significant and ongoing intervention. If you have a child with a disability however, bring every piece of paper ever written! and their. Vaccination records

[Guest The Pom Queen]

Agree with Snifter unless you have major health problems I wouldn't bother but get a copy of the children's vaccinations for e rolling them at school.

You will find even if you have a diagnosis in the UK they will want to run their own tests and confirm everything once you are here.

You could even just get the GP to write a letter saying Mrs Smith has this, this and this kind regards Dr Brown

[caramac]

The only other reason you might need them is if you have anything that may have a bearing on health/life insurance. I had a benign heart condition which was never really going to cause any problem, but it meant we had to pay extra for health insurance and I couldn't get any life insurance.

When we moved out there again in 2009 I took the letter from the cardiologist who operated on me to say it had been fixed and was not a problem. Got both insurances no problem.

As Geraldine says, your clinical summary should be enough - depending on what job you're going to be doing, your immunisation record can be useful.

[Mrs Fabricator]

Great thank you everyone xxx

[Wokos]

Thanks everyone. Xx

[Incata]

We did not bother bringing our medical records. We brought the kids red books as they needed evidence of immunisations for school etc. We did bring a couple of letters from our GP saying my son and I have anaphylaxsis but the doctors here were not interested. We still had to pay to see a specialist who then wanted to reprove that we had the allergies. I had to tell two separate specialists (one for me and one for my son) that if they did challenge tests (whereby you are given the food or drug you react to), we would have severe allergic reactions and then we would sue him. We pointed out that we had been diagnosed through challenge testing by a couple of the top allergy teams in the UK and once we went to court with those letters, he would pay a lot of money. Funnily enough, he agreed to sign the forms to say we were anaphylactics immediately we threatened legal action.

 

Specialists here think they are Gods and that no doctor anywhere else in the world is as good as them. As far as treatment of allergies are concerned, they are a long way behind the UK, particularly in terms of paediatric care. They are genuinely shocked when challenged and I get the impression they expect their word to be taken as gospel. When a doctor came out with some rubbish about herbal remedies I asked him to prove it. He nearly fell over and eventually spluttered that one of his friends had told him - and that was the best he could come up with. He nearly passed out when I told him that as a medical professional I expected him to be able to back up what he said with clinical evidence, rather than something his mate told him once. I told him that was not an acceptable medical approach. He backed off.

 

Suffice to say, I have been very impressed with my British GP here, but less than impressed with the specialists. Either way, none of them have been interested in seeing any evidence of my medical history, so I would not waste your money paying your British GP as once you are here, it will not be looked at.