At 20:12 04/04/04, you wrote:
>If it has not been possible to obtain at least one Recommendation from a
>doctor who has previous acquaintance, then the Applicant has to state
>why this was the case.
Thanks for all the replies.
If I've read all correctly a GP with no special experience can be the
second doctor perfectly correctly, even without prior knowledge of the
patient, IF IT CAN BE EXPLAINED WHY.
However if I've understood Fay's position, in Birmingham the co-op has
taken a view that its doctors should not be called upon to section patients
at all, for clinical and medico-legal reasons.
Paul's point about 72 hour detentions is AFAIK legally valid, but around
here SS seem to frown on them and I'm not aware that they're widely used.
In summary the law probably doesn't need changing to take account of the
OOH changes, but for the moment each co-op needs to seek advice and decide
its own policy?
Is this correct?
Julian
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