Maybe this is not news to you but today my neighbouring practice received
two newborn registration documents with the same number. I then heard that
this is not an isolated problem and we should not rely on this number as a
unique patient identifier. How can so much time and money have been spent
without devising a proper method for issuing numbers to the newborn. We
might as well have stayed with the old numbers. Perhaps the lottery machine
could be kept busy all week issuing the new numbers.
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Stuart Skeates [log in to unmask]
Romsey, Hants
General Medical Practitioner
PGP ID: 102AB451: 58 A1 3A D4 30 54 E2 17 5D E7 84 79 42 8B 79 D1
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