Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:33 pm
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Hello
has anyone else had an issue due to past medical info being incomplete in their GP records?
I'm a PPL student, just for fun no intention to make flying part of a career, so I need a Class 2 certificate. I declared at my medical the fact that 20 years ago, after having my daughter I had a diagnosis of post natal depression. To be perfectly honest what I really had was a sudden shock to the system of being 22 and having a baby with no family around me, no money and life generally being rather tough. However there was a PND diagnosis. I was given medication, it made me feel so awful I went back to (I think) the GP and said I'm not taking this. The end result being that I found my feet as a new mother and said child has recently graduated college. By the time she was 3 I was employed in a new career. I've run a business since 2001 and am about as resilient and healthy a person mentally and physically as you are likely to meet.
So I didn't expect this to be an issue. It seems that it is. The AME requested records from the GP, eventually they produced them saying that I've not had medication since etc. That I have no symptoms of depression. The AME however still isn't happy. I'm not sure why, but she wants the original report from the hospital that prescribed the meds, so I called them and they were completely baffled. They don't know if they even have the data it being from almost 20 years ago, and the best they could do is give me a form to do a Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act. Having some knowledge of applying for information this way they need to respond within 40 days but if they don't have the info, I'm not really sure what can be done.
Has anyone else had this issue and managed to get it resolved? Seems like this is all going to turn out rather expensive whatever happens!
Rachel
has anyone else had an issue due to past medical info being incomplete in their GP records?
I'm a PPL student, just for fun no intention to make flying part of a career, so I need a Class 2 certificate. I declared at my medical the fact that 20 years ago, after having my daughter I had a diagnosis of post natal depression. To be perfectly honest what I really had was a sudden shock to the system of being 22 and having a baby with no family around me, no money and life generally being rather tough. However there was a PND diagnosis. I was given medication, it made me feel so awful I went back to (I think) the GP and said I'm not taking this. The end result being that I found my feet as a new mother and said child has recently graduated college. By the time she was 3 I was employed in a new career. I've run a business since 2001 and am about as resilient and healthy a person mentally and physically as you are likely to meet.
So I didn't expect this to be an issue. It seems that it is. The AME requested records from the GP, eventually they produced them saying that I've not had medication since etc. That I have no symptoms of depression. The AME however still isn't happy. I'm not sure why, but she wants the original report from the hospital that prescribed the meds, so I called them and they were completely baffled. They don't know if they even have the data it being from almost 20 years ago, and the best they could do is give me a form to do a Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act. Having some knowledge of applying for information this way they need to respond within 40 days but if they don't have the info, I'm not really sure what can be done.
Has anyone else had this issue and managed to get it resolved? Seems like this is all going to turn out rather expensive whatever happens!
Rachel
Last edited by rachelandrew on Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.