Retention of Records Policy - Library

Type of Health Record Minimum Retention Period Derivation Final action CodeEndoscope leakage testing Lifetime of equipment (or if all information is recorded on ENT Clinic See SterriliserLlogsthe same sheet – average life of the endoscope + 2 years) Temperature Testing LogEndoscope – record of 8 years ENT Clinic Lscope to patient andcleansing detailsFamily planning records 10 years after closure of the caseFor children retain until their 25 th birthdayDestroy underconfidentialNForensic medicine records(including pathology,toxicology, haematology,dentistry, DNA testing, postmortems forming part of theCoroner’s report, and humantissue kept as part of theforensic record)See also Humantissue, Post mortemregistersFor post – mortem records which form part of theCoroner’s report, approval should be sought from thecoroner for a copy of the report to be incorporated in thepatient’s notes, which should then be kept in line with thespecialty, and then reviewedAll other records retain for 30 yearsThe Retention and Storage ofPathological Records andArchives ( 3 rd edition 2005)guidance from the RoyalCollege of Pathologists andthe Institute of BiomedicalScience:http://www.rcpath.org.uk/resources/pdf/retention-SEPT05.pdfHuman Tissue Act 2004conditionsSee note 1NGenetic records 30 years from date of last attendance The Royal College ofPathologists endorses theCode of Practice andGuidance of the AdvisoryCommittee on GeneticTesting (1997) and itsrecommendations on storage,archiving and disposal ofspecimens and recordsrelated to human testingservices (genetics) offeredSee note 1N.Page 12 of 57