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AK>[log in to unmask],Internet wrote at 4:44 pm on 17/9/96 AK>about "Patient Allocation": AK>----------------------------- AK>>My FHSA/HA (Brent and Harrow) have just allocated a patient to me from AK>>outside our FHSA agreed area. I don't wish to breach patient confidence AK>>with details but I am frightened to accept this patient. AK>> AK>>My FHSA says they have a right to allocate patients even if the live AK>>outside my area. I think this is wrong and unjust. AK>>BTW, I think this is a sign of the ne HA/GP realtionship;authoritarian, AK>>unjust and uncaring. AK>----------------------------- AK>Our FHSA say that they have been advised by the NHS ME that the Red Book AK>was never intended to be binding - on them. IE the Dept of health had AK>their fingers crossed behind their back when they signed it. AK>Sounds as though yours have adopted the pragmatic approach to the Terms and AK>Conditions as well IE "we can do whatever you cannot prove we can't do". AK>Your message wasn't totally clear, There is confusion here. Terms of Service are legally binding on both sides (except of course when HMG changes the contract through parliament as on Clark Day) and it is the ToS that refer to allocations. (see my previous message) The red book just refers to how we are to be paid, not what we are obliged to do for said measly sum. AK>Brent and harrow FHSA have jurisdiction in Brent and Harrow, nowhere else AK>AFAIK, unless they are acting as agents of another FHSA on their mutual AK>border. AK>You have no obligation to accept, nor can you be allocated a patient from AK>outside your advertised practice area, AFAIK. Sadly this is incorrect advice. ______________________________________________________________ Dr. David Jobson The Surgery, Main St Surgery Tel +44 (0)1728 830526 Leiston Surgery Fax 832029 Suffolk Home Tel 831100 IP16 4JG email [log in to unmask] * SLMR 2.1a * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%