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The Minister's briefing may not have emphasised that:-
1. the NHS requires Practices to ask where a patient was previously
registered;
2. the NHS maintains a central register, which if it is actually
functional means that Practices neither get benefit from asking,
recording, and passing on this information, nor is there any need or use
for PCTs to receive it.
Many things that Ministers have found themselves accusing us of, when
looked at for a short while, turn out to have major elements which have
been imposed upon us by the management of the NHS, the DOH (insofar as
it is now separate from that) or the Secretary of State (perhaps in a
previous bodily incarnation).
Announcing that as from say Tuesday Practices are requested not to ask
where a patient is currently or previously registered, need not ask, and
PCTs are forbidden to ask them to would be easy, simple, demonstrably
action in the direction of a change the Minister has indicated is
desired, and an enabling change made by him, for Practices and the ten
or so patients who have emailed him to say they couldn't get registered.
I look forward to seeing who says it is impossible and why, and
determining whether that is actually true.
(It has probably been embodied in software, but that takes almost no
time to de-specify and strip out in _properly designed_ software)
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