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Hi All, I’m looking for the views of anyone who is involved with NHS PaSA/Medical Recruitment Agencies. As an Occupational Health provider dealing with a large number of agencies we have found it hard dealing with NHS PaSA. I’m interested to learn if there are others professionals out there who have also experienced the same difficulties as us. Over the past years we have asked for many points to be clarified and these always go un-answered. An example of this is that Candidates used to be able to refuse a BCG as long as a disclaimed was signed. We were working to these guidelines then suddenly in March 2007 one of our clients failed an audit. When we asked PaSA (Verbally) they told us that immunity had always been required. The problem is that the audit report stated that this was due to a change in legislation confirming that it hadn’t always been required. We decided to write to PaSA to ask for an explanation and we also asked for them to detail the new requirements. After several months there was no response so we called the Head Auditor and she again verbally confirmed that immunity to TB was required and refused to put it in writing. We have faced the same problem with over issue like Hep B, we used to be able to allow a candidate to work with levels under 100 miu/ml as long as we stated on the certificate that a booster was required. Again over night this was changed and now we are not allowed to issue a fit to work unless the candidate has levels of 100 miu/ml or more. I want to see if we are the only company having these issue and I would be interested to learn of similar problems. Regards Robert Carlin Healthier Business UK Ltd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS http://OHJobs.drmaze.net OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION http://www.aohne.org.uk