From: Roger Leary <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 09 August 1998 02:49
Subject: Patient allocation
>We have recently been assigned 10 patients from a local nursing home that
>stopped payment of a retainer fee to the GPs involved
>1. How long must we keep these patients before advising the Health
>Authority that we wish to relinquish responsibility?
14 days, I thought, but Ahmad's probably right.
>2. What is the 'official' position now with regard visiting patients at
>nursing homes who are fit to attend the surgery but for
> whom the nursing home management refuses to provide the means to
>attend the surgery thus 'forcing' a visit
GPs responsibility to decide if, when & where a consultation takes place.
Nobody else can "force" a visit.
>We are also exploring the possibility of 'non core payments' as clearly
this
>is an issue that will not go away.
Presumably what the previous GP was trying to do before giving up!
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Steve
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