Thanks for your comments: after recent LMC meeting, HA have backed down.
Bradley Cheek
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-----Original Message-----
From: PETER FELLOWS <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 08 September 1998 01:23
Subject: Re: 1001 claims
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bradley Cheek <[log in to unmask]>
>To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 04 September 1998 18:47
>Subject: 1001 claims
>
>
>>Our friendly health authority has recently started deducting the
>appropriate number of quarter's fee from the annual contraceptive claim
>(1001 or 1002) if the patient becomes pregnant. Does this happen elsewhere?
>>
>>It is my assertion that the fee is an annual fee (it is defined in the red
>book as such, it is just paid quarterly) and therefore should be paid in
>full. >Bradley Cheek
>
>Your HA is wrong. It is of course perfectly possible to give contraceptive
>advice to a patient during her pregnancy, and so you are entitled to
>initiate, let alone continue, a claim even if the patient is pregnant at the
>time. ( Giving advice qualifies you for payment). It is indeed an annual
>fee, paid quarterly, but if the patient transfers in year to a different
>doctor the claim then ceases to attract further quarterly payment. Refer the
>HA to paragraph 29.7, and 29.9 of the Red Book.
>
> Peter Fellows, GPC
>
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