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>I was out of the practice last thursday. On friday morning the practice
>manager told me that someone from the finance dept. at the HA had been in the
>practice for 5 hours to verify our claims and had asked to inspect patient
>records to verify night visits.
>I find this amazing-- as far as I'm concerned the only person who can
>authorise the release of their records is the patient. If the HA want to
>verify claims they can ask the patient as the old FHSA used to.
The old system - asking the patient - separated the *service* - a night
visit - from the *confidential clinical record*. I'd agree - have your
patients given consent? I thought the GMC adviced against this?
>
>I am very disturbed by this action which flouts an agreement with the LMC
>that if it were ever necessary to inspect records it would only be by
>medically qualified HA staff who had the same principles of confidentiality.
>
What are your LMC saying now?
>Needless to say this will be an ongoing discussion with the HA
Good
>and I will
>keep the list informed if anyone is interested
Please do : this is important
>but has anyone else had
>problems like this?
This *is* a public list - the best place to publicise this type of
problem.
>I would appreciate any info regarding policies/problems
>in other areas .
>
>Thanks Margaret Jones GP South Staffs
Mary
Mary Hawking
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