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Correcting information in referral

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Is it acceptable to write to the NHS autism service to correct information my GP sent in my referral? My name (I legally changed it a few months ago to the name I've used socially since birth), pronouns, phone number, and medications are incorrect on the letter the GP sent. The autism service has since written to me using the wrong name. It seems sensible to me to reply to correct my information but I'm often wrong about these things and do things that are considered inappropriate, so I thought I'd run it by you first.

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  • This reminds me that when I got my diagnostic report in the post, they had stated one thing (and one only) that I'd told them as completely the reverse of what I'd actually said. I'd mentioned that as very young infant I'm told that I COULD be left for a long time with just one thing to play with and when my mum returned I'd be still working away at it with the same degree of focus.They said in the report 'when he was an infant, he COULD NOT be left alone... etc.' 

    This difference was enough to make me very anxious and I got fixated on whether it had affected the score, even the diagnosis itself - and imposter syndrome kicked in (disproportionately) big time. So I contacted them, asked them to change it and to re-run the numbers so to speak. I didn't want to have inadvertently been guilty of self-defeating diagnosis fraud, even though I knew the mishearing was on their side. A few days later, a second amended copy came through the letterbox. That sentence was changed to the correct version, but the score and conclusion remained the same. I've no idea if a disinterested front-desk person just re-typed and re-sent, or if the assessors (who seemed diligent and well meaning people) did indeed factor in the change but found the critical mass all still weighted things in exactly the same way as before. But that was a stressful few days: wondering if the relief of being diagnosed was (in hindsight, implausibly) jeaopardised. Thankfully not. And there really was plenty else in the thing, correctly stated, that should have reassured me of that in advance. 

  • in reply to Shardovan

    It could have been that the "could not" was just a typo and they had factored in what you actually said into the results.

  • in reply to Glitter

    Possibly. In a way I hope so, though in a sense it was a drop on the bucket of the total evidence anyway.

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