In message <[log in to unmask]>, Joe Gallagher
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>A patient who I know quite well and with whom I have(had) a very good
>rapport with, _walked_ into my surgery recently and asked me to
>complete a form which would entitle her to a new E.U. disability parking
>disc which needs the signature of a doc and a cop.
>
>She does indeed suffer from chronic debilitating back pain but the
>criteria asked if she was "wholly or almost wholly without the use of
>one leg and ditto the other"(paraphrase)
Maybe there *is* something to be said for the current orange badge form
- only asks if they can walk a certain distance .. Now I come to think
of it, I've never called a patient in and tested them..
Fascinating idea that it needs the signature of a cop.;->> Did you check
the questions for him/her?
Mary
PS Suppose we just start writing on all of these "information not held
in medical record"? - except where it is, of course!
PPS Do artificial legs count as legs?
>(b)Why did she ask me to sign it ?
Does she have an orange stcker now - or, on current criteria, be
eligible for one? This is getting to be a bit like the DSS criteria for
Disability - ignoring the fact that a 50 year old illiterate labourer
with recurrent sciatica is unemployable *on health grounds* seems to me
to be PC gone crazy!
Mary Hawking Kingsbury Court Surgery Church Street Dunstable LU5 4RS
tel:01582 663218 (surgery)fax:01582 476488 (surgery)
Member of British Healthcare Internet Association
Dunstable and Houghton Regis Locality Commisssioning Pilot
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