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Talk Wrench

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Long story cut short. I'm involved with a welfare case and we need to obtain (with permission of the client) medical and psychology/psychiatry records from their time in Cyprus. The hospital there shut down some years ago and the client was treated there according to the verbal history provided.

A general request for service records hasn't turned anything up so can anyone advise on where or who to contact?


Thanking you all in advance.
 

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You have their current med record or you don't?
 

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"general request for service records" - did you do it through the Subject Access Request? If not, submit a SAR and specify what information you are after.
The information already provided by the client was accessed via SAR but there's bits missing. That's assuming what we are being told is correct of course and that's what we are trying to establish.
 

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Med docs are normally accessed through disclosures at Trenchard Hall Cranwell.

What is the timeframe here?
 

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Med docs are normally accessed through disclosures at Trenchard Hall Cranwell.

What is the timeframe here?
That's awesome. Thank you.

We're not constrained by time fortunately.

Without going into too much detail, we have an ex army guy who was treated in Cyprus and we are assisting with challenging a rejected compensation claim for worsening effects of PTSD from his time in Iraq.

As the hospital was Tri-service, we don't really know where the records went.
 

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I don't think this is a particularly isolated case of missing med documents.

My whole medical record the RAF supplied to my current doctor fits easily onto two sides of A4 paper.

Single line entries for some complex stuff. Not great.
 

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TMPH would have been staffed Tri Service but it was a RAF Hospital for most of its operation.

Always handy to remember that there will be a greater burden on the Service to prove that it did non harm rather than the individual, failure to maintain proper medical records wouldn't look best.
 

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TMPH would have been staffed Tri Service but it was a RAF Hospital for most of its operation.

Always handy to remember that there will be a greater burden on the Service to prove that it did non harm rather than the individual, failure to maintain proper medical records wouldn't look best.
Lawyers love it when documents and paper trails aren't up to speed. They call it incomplete tasking. In terms of medical documents and procedures, if it isn't written down, it didn't happen.
 

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That's awesome. Thank you.

We're not constrained by time fortunately.

Without going into too much detail, we have an ex army guy who was treated in Cyprus and we are assisting with challenging a rejected compensation claim for worsening effects of PTSD from his time in Iraq.

As the hospital was Tri-service, we don't really know where the records went.

They won't be through cranwell then I'd have thought, they would be where ever the Army stores its med records.

I meant when did it happen?
 

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Thanks for the replies, it's a complicated case and there are, sadly, a lot more cases out there.
 

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And they aren't in his full med docs from the army?
 

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Long story cut short. I'm involved with a welfare case and we need to obtain (with permission of the client) medical and psychology/psychiatry records from their time in Cyprus. The hospital there shut down some years ago and the client was treated there according to the verbal history provided.

A general request for service records hasn't turned anything up so can anyone advise on where or who to contact?


Thanking you all in advance.

Good luck.

I received a letter this morning from the solicitors acting for me on my Hearing Loss Claim.

It seems that the MOD are taking in excess of 18 months to receive records from their own archives.

Am I surprised?

Not at all, the whole fúcking defence system is a cock up as we see on a daily basis in the mainstream news.
 
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