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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cork => Topic started by: AlanR83 on Friday 10 April 20 11:32 BST (UK)
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I know this hospital closed in 1996, would anyone know where I would go to contact an Archives department for Patient records who was in this hospital from 1971 to 1972?
The patient was a close relation of mine who is now deceased.
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Well you'd be asking about the HSE who are up to their eyes at moment with Virus...
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Sensitive personal records, such as medical records, are often closed for a significant period of time, e.g. 100 years.
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I can't find the hospital in question but the Access paragraph on collections held at the NAI says medical information about individuals after 1900 are closed.
I would think it would be the same for all archived medical records.
https://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Hospital_records_BrianDonnelly.pdf
end of page 7.
This is more modern, clearly there is a code of practice but don't know where to find the code for hospitals.
https://medisec.ie/news/Retention-of-Medical-Records
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I tried to get records after my fathers death- he’d been there often between 1966-1979. The son of his doctor told me all the records had been burnt! The gouvernent had ordered the destruction of records apparently after the unsolicited use of EST on patients.