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Mary Hawking wrote:
> When you have a patient with a common name and no knowledge of their NHS
> number, the name and address of the previous doctor - or the patient's
> previous address if they had told their previous practice of previous
> moves - helps to identify the patient on PDS.
> I have this fear of either not receiving the record on GP2GP - or
> incorporating the wrong record.
> I'm not sure why you are so concerned - patients may have forgotten but
> don't seem to mind.
Name, sex and DoB narrows it down pretty thoroughly.
Adding part of an address already heads toward uniquity.
For the rare collisions, anyone who really wants to know can ask the
patient.
It isn't us, but whatever time-expired ex-managerial NHS 3 year man
briefs him in the DoH and has traduced us that purports to care, and
deserves a total Fisking.
Civil servants have many characteristics, some good, some bad and some
just ... characteristic, but what they do have visibly is the appearance
of wanting to build a and maintain a country they live in, whereas few
managers in the NHS demonstrate this to a like degree.
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