Dear Barrack Room lawyer!
Julian
Not sure if that well tied down in law. Some doc, or more likely his
secretary, rings me and asks me to cover his practice. A smart lawyer
could have fun with the definition of that term "cover" but I know I am
probably splitting hairs a bit here.
Maybe the point I should have been making was that freelancers have no
_direct_ contract with DWP or its equivalent in the devolved bits.
I suppose I am a bit exercised by the yawning voids I have seen between
what the SSA (here) insists is best practice for issuing Med 3s and what
is actually done by various docs, including some very senior members of
the profession.
And I also have to admit that I think in many ways it is a farrago of
nonsense to have such a complex and bureaucratic system in place for
policing disbursement of an extremely basic benefit.
Declan
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