Leonard Peters Asks:
LP>HELP!
LP>My FHSA/HA (Brent and Harrow) have just allocated a patient to me from
LP>outside our FHSA agreed area. I don't wish to breach patient confidence
LP>with details but I am frightened to accept this patient.
LP>My FHSA says they have a right to allocate patients even if the live
LP>outside my area. I think this is wrong and unjust.
LP>The BMA say they don't know (well that,s worth £20 per month) and have
LP>advised me to remove the patient before seeing him which I have done.
LP>Does anyone know the law here.
Your HA are, and very much regret to say, correct.
There is no tie up in the ToS 'tween practice area and
allocations, though they would have trouble allocating a
patient miles and miles away, except by the time you've
appealed, you could have had him/her removed anyway.
What is also not commonly know is that the "three month rule"
whereby allocated patients are moved on after three months,
is nothing but a gentleman's agreement, and you can ask the
HA to remove a patient as soon as they allocate the patient,
and therefore before you are involved in "continuing care" -
there will of course be a two week delay (excepting violence
with police involvement). Faxes speed things up too.
The BMA may not know, but I know the GMSC do.
They are not the same thing.
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