Gerard Freriks schreef: > Dear all, > > In the paper world, I know, it is clear. > > A document with legal implications can never be destroyed without any > trace. > A document with legal implications can be removed from a registry in > one place and moved to a special registry, folder, cupboard, etc. > > And the same is true for data entered (and attestedand therefor with > leagal implications) in the paper file. > What is in it, stays in it. > It is explicitly forbidden to remove, scratch out, made unreadable, etc. Sorry Gerard, in my opinion you are wrong, article 455 of WGBO (law of protection of personal data) states very explicitly that a patient can demand destroying of his record. I wrote this two days ago. The holder of this record must obey within 3 months after demanding, and there are some exclusions, but the fact is that there are situations where those exclusions do not apply. So permanent deletion of records is a demand of the law.
Bert
