On Saturday 17 January 2004 13:44, Roger Gardiner wrote:
> SEEN and questioned Fay,
>
> a phone call is not enough
It has been established, and published in a Home Office letter which is held
by the Association of Cremation Referees that the time at whcih they met is
not required to be the time at which they discuss the case.
IE the common practice of some areas but not all whereby two doctors who have
in fact met at some other time use the telephone to question and be
questionned is accepted.
I'd say it is questionnable, and may yet be questionned again, but I would
point out that until all undertakers have data terminals with access to the
NHS national spine (and surely this cannot be long, once it is up and
working, since Uncle Tom Cobley et all seem to be getting access) it is
actually non-trivial to consult the notes unless you are in the place the
notes are - whcih is not usually the place the corpse is.
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