In good faith they took the insurance premium inititially. Hence
surely they should provide the service fisrt and then argue the toss
afterwards. The requests are always urgent and at the beginning of a
busy surgery requesting quite detailed information. I suppose the only
saving grace today was that it was 9.15a.m. on a Tuesday and not a
Monday!
As I remember someone saying last time - THEY ARE NOT asking for any
information that is required for present treatment. The only reason
that they can be asking for the information if you think about it
logically is to see if they can wriggle out of any responsibility.
Best wishes
Paul Bromley
On 16/01/07, Dr Laurie Miles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The difficulty is the tremendous pressure that they apply to provide the
> information, and they do not provide payment for this. And they often apply
> pressure on relatives at home to come and pester us for a report.
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> The whole situation is quite unsatisfactory.
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> Laurie Miles
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> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Russell Brown
> Sent: 16 January 2007 10:42 am
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [GP-UK] 'Old Chestnut' - Repatriation informetion regarding
> insurance
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> Certainly what I do, if that's any help.
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> Russell
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> On 16/01/07, Paul Bromley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Had one of these today during busy morning surgery requesting urgent
> information to see whether the patient has complied with the trems of
> the insurance.
>
> I told them that GPC advice was that we should not give a report at
> this stage and that they should decide whether to repatriate or not on
> the information they had. Is this the consensus from last time?? The
> old grey matter and all that!!!
>
> Paul Bromley
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