Your Health Records

Your health records contain information about your healthcare. They are made by doctors, nurses or other health professionals and can include:

• details about you, for example your date of birth, address, next of kin, gender, language, ethnicity, any disabilities you have
• hand-written clinical notes
• letters to and from other health professionals
• laboratory reports
• imaging scans such as X-rays
• printouts from monitoring equipment
• photographs

Accessing Your Health Records

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you are entitled to access your clinical records or any other personal information held about you. 

Access to Health Records online request form

For completed forms or to request a paper copy and for further advice please contact:

 Access to Health Records Office
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
c/o Legal Services Department
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Great Western Road
Gloucester
GL1 3NN

Telephone: 0300 422 5746 or 0300 422 5747