Sure, but it isn't a breach of the TOS.
Andrew
Dr. Andrew N. Herd MRCGP [log in to unmask]
Family Physician, Medical Adviser to Durham Health Authority
Lecturer in Primary Care, Durham University
Medical Editor, Practice Computing
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 March 1998 07:57
Subject: Re: Shotgun marriage
>In article Andrew Herd <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Private referral = private script
>>
>>Not so. The NHS specifically states that you may not deny a patient who
has
>>been in receipt of private treatment access to treatment on the NHS. This
>>includes prescribing, which is awkward, but nonetheless, the law.
>
>However, if you choose to "convert" a private script issued by a
>consultant, into an NHS script issued by yourself, then you take over
>responsibility for that script. You should be cautious if it is a drug
>with which you are unfamiliar, and I would hesitate to prescribe solely
>on the basis of a private script.
>
>Telling a patient to take a private script along to an NHS GP and "they
>will convert it to an NHS script" is not appropriate IMO.
>--
>Jon Rogers
>
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