Your medical records
All the care you receive is documented in your medical records. These medical records contain important information about your health and treatment.
Shared medical records
To provide you with the best possible care, we use what is known as a shared medical record system in the counties of Stockholm and Gotland. This means that we and many other healthcare providers – such as hospitals – can access your medical records in full to ensure you receive the correct treatment.
However, you must always grant us consent to share your medical records with other healthcare providers.
The purpose of the shared medical records system is to provide us with a more complete picture of your care needs, and to ensure that your details are up to date. You simply should not have to repeat your medical history every time you visit a new healthcare provider. Your data is protected under the Patient Data Act.
Confidentiality
Access to the information in your medical records is restricted only to people who are involved in your care. Nor do we share information with your other healthcare providers unless you agree to this. The same applies to sharing information with your relatives if you are of legal age.
Special rules apply regarding information provided to children under 18 who are related to someone who is ill.
You can opt out
You have the right to opt out of the shared medical records system. You should notify the healthcare staff treating you if you wish to do so. They will then help you to fill in the necessary forms to block access to your medical records and explain what this involves.
Other healthcare providers will then be unable to access the information in your medical records. If access to your medical records has been blocked, you must tell the staff at your other healthcare providers anything they need to know in order to provide you with appropriate care.
Guardians do not have the right to block access to their children’s medical records. However, as children under the age of 18 grow older and more mature, they may be given the right to block access to their own medical records.
You have the right to see who has accessed your medical records
As a patient, you are entitled to view a list of people who have accessed your medical records. Please Contact the unit or clinic where you received treatment and ask for what is known as an access log extract. This access log extract will show you when your medical records were accessed, and from which unit.
Quality registers
Quality registers are a way for healthcare services to systematically monitor various diseases and improve treatment.
By taking part in the national quality registers, you are helping to improve healthcare services. The more people who take part, the more reliable the results will be. We will then use these results in our improvement work. Your participation makes a difference.
Privacy and security
All quality registers are subject to strict confidentiality. The information is encrypted so that no data can be linked to a specific individual. When the information is no longer needed, it is deleted.
Your rights as a patient
You have the right to know how the data relating to you in the quality registers is used. In some cases, the data may be used for research. Your clinic can help you to obtain extract showing what details are held about you in the register. You also have the right to know if your data comes from sources other than your medical records or yourself.
Voluntary participation
Participation in the registers is voluntary, and your decision will not impact the care you receive. Please let your clinic know if you would prefer not to participate. You can change your mind at any time.
Questions and further information
Ask the healthcare professional treating you if you want to know which quality registers your clinic reports to.
- Updated: 25 may 2026