Hi, I’ve finally been able to access my child’s records. I’m dismayed to see that our child’s mother has, under the pretence of presenting our child as suffering from vomiting, made allegations to the doctor of: ending our relationship because she refused to have an abortion (it was due to DV on her part), introducing our child to my partner without her agreement, not having a good relationship with our child, only attempting to increase the time our child spends with me so that I can reduce maintenance payments, drug abuse. Also included is the statement that, 50% of the time, he vomits the day after seeing me (ie. Once a week). And that he doesn’t vomit when he hasn’t seen me (disproven by other entires in his medical record where he has been presented with various vomiting viruses).
The allegations are presented in the record in such a way as it is impossible to distinguish whether they are factual, the GP’s opinion, or the mother’s unsubstantiated allegation.
As a reminder this information was added to his medical record after being presented with being ill/vomiting. I’m unable to corroborate whether my child was truly ill or not. One can infer from the notes that there is a suggestion of poisoning (whether prompted by her or by the GP I do not know).
I suspect the motivation for taking him to the doctors and making these untruthful allegations was to try and get these allegations recorded so that they could be used in some way as evidence.
Does anyone else have experience with this matter and can anyone advise on how I go about rectifying his record (on the grounds that the information is inaccurate, not clinically relevant, and likely to cause significant emotional harm when he turns 16(ish) and has access to his own medical records)?
The allegations are presented in the record in such a way as it is impossible to distinguish whether they are factual, the GP’s opinion, or the mother’s unsubstantiated allegation.
As a reminder this information was added to his medical record after being presented with being ill/vomiting. I’m unable to corroborate whether my child was truly ill or not. One can infer from the notes that there is a suggestion of poisoning (whether prompted by her or by the GP I do not know).
I suspect the motivation for taking him to the doctors and making these untruthful allegations was to try and get these allegations recorded so that they could be used in some way as evidence.
Does anyone else have experience with this matter and can anyone advise on how I go about rectifying his record (on the grounds that the information is inaccurate, not clinically relevant, and likely to cause significant emotional harm when he turns 16(ish) and has access to his own medical records)?