Julian
<<Let's be hypothetical (but not totally random) for a moment.
1) A non-principal uses OOH prescription forms to obtain Soya milk for
their baby who does NOT have proven cows milk intolerance.>>
Plenty of views but not here!. I would feel safe enough in saying that I have encountered such before and motivations ranges from ignorance to penny-pinching right through to some abstruse desire to hurt the system. Should not happen. Period.
<<2) Declan / Jel, if you did a locum in a practice would you walk off with
the prescription pad and use it whenever you want to treat any sick
patients (regardless of family or otherwise)? If you wouldn't why not?>>
Ummm. Have to get myself back in NHS rules and regs mode here. In essence, this one is bad because if done repeatedly and as a matter of course, it may well be done with fraudulent intent. What advantage is there in taking a pad and using it elsewhere? If done solely for the convenience of the patient, that is well and good so long as the patient does not reward the doc for such altruism. As in, money, gifts, favours.
Even if done for the purest of motives without reward of any kind, there are questions about continuing care of said patients, about informing their registered doc, about treating without access to their records etc.
I would tend to feel that, given the various perversities of the NHS, someone who deliberately takes a pad and uses it over and over again to write scripts for patients is either a bit gormless or is making something on the deal.
A one-off, as per the original question, esp if for family OOH, is I would have thought a bit different.
Declan
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