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An apple a day keeps the doctor away......

While in care, the local authority must look after your general health care. As your corporate parents they want you to be as well as you can be at all times and get ill as little as possible. 

The stuff that they do includes:

• Making sure you are registered with a doctor and a dentist.  
• Making sure you have a health assessment each year - you may wish to talk about this with your social worker or with Bristol's Children Looked After Nurses. 
• These are Doug Binfield (email doug.binfield@bristol.gov.uk or tel 0117 914 4260) or Pauline Newnham (email pauline.newnham@bristol.gov.uk or tel 0117 914 4260)  
• If you are under five, you will see a doctor twice a year for a health assessment.
• Making sure your health care needs are part of your care plan and that health is part of your Review discussions.  
• Finding out vital information about your health as you go into care, e.g., whether you may have certain allergies, asthma, epilepsy etc.

For more information on the Children Looked After Nurses, click here.

Want more information?  Email us at rvoiceonline@bristol.gov.uk

Click on the links below for more information on:

• Emotional support
• Relationships and sexual health
• Drugs and alcohol

Do other people see my medical notes or files?

After your Health Assessment a summary of the assessment & copy of a Health Care Action Plan (making sure that things that need to happen for you to have a  healthy life do happen ) is sent to your GP, your Social Worker & Children Looked After Nurses . A copy of the Health Care Plan is sent to you, to your carer & perhaps other people who are named on the Plan that need to do something to help your health .

You should be told about where these things are sent before you have the Health assessment in case you are not happy about some people seeing this information & then you can discuss those concerns  about sharing the summary &  Plan  with the Doctor or Nurse who is doing your Health assessment .Usually other people are not allowed to see your medical notes or files. Anything you say to your doctor or any other health professional is confidential unless they are worried that you may be in danger of harm.  In that case they would have to pass on information to your social worker but they should tell you if they do this. As you get older you will take more responsibility for your health.

"I'm sorry to say but sadly it's true, that bang-ups and hang ups can happen to you"

- Dr Seuss