Stick to your guns. Triage. If they can come to the centre then they should.
Para 13 (in effect the law on this point) says that the doctor can decide.
Once you have decided then the patient can decline to come at their own
risk. If the call is recorded and they know it is you have the advantage. It
is hard, it is stressfull, some people get cross but we must stand our
ground.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
GP Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton Sheffield S20 5JX
Tel;0114 269 5061 Fax;0114 269 7186
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask]
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of allan harris
>Sent: 12 July 1998 13:45
>To: INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: Evening and weekend surgeries
>
>
>Our local paper is currently running front page stories about
>patients, usually
>kids, whose parents have been unwilling to bring them to the
>centre. This encourages
>a defensive attitude to visiting, where the strict clinical need for a
>visit may be suborned by the need to keep off the front page. It
>is plainly
>not in our terms of service to provide a taxi service or to subsidise those
>people who say they have no money for transport to us. Logistically it
>can be impossible to physically get around everyone who requests a visit.
>
>How do others tackle this problem? Is it widespread? The mood in the office
>yesterday when we looked at the frontpage was unhappy. We don't
>feel the Press
>understand the problems we work under, even if they really want to
>understand.
>We are an easy target for emotive journalism. We risk losing some public
>confidence if this continues.
>
>
>--
>Allan Harris, GP, Haxby, York YO3 3PH
>tel 01904-768666
>work 01904-760125, fax 750168
>
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