On Sunday 28 November 2004 00:51, Jeff Green wrote:
> Surely fraud requires someone to be defrauded?
>
> ... - and the dispensing fee
> comes from a global sum.
Therefore the rest of the globe may have been defrauded, since their income is
reduced.
> Unless surgeries are employing extra staff or paying overtime
> to generate and sign the additional scripts it doesn't cost the
> surgery anything.
That is not the case, there is at least an opportunity cost, as well as the
cost of mistakes which are made at approximately a steady percentage rate in
most circumstances, until a critical point of workload is passed when it
begins to rise more rapidly. (28 day prescribing is largely stupid)
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Dr Adrian Midgley GP Exeter www.defoam.net
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