GPs must help patients obtain firearms licences if requested

[Christel]

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/financ ... 37.article

GPs who refuse to deal with firearms licensing requests because of conscientious objection have to help patients find another doctor, says updated BMA guidance.

[dromia]

So bloody BASC are still saying we need to pay for any report requested, again our great "national" organisations have bended over for another shafting on our behalf.

[Blackstuff]

Wow, just wow, read the comments below, all of them. May god help you going to the doctors with the auto flag as a firearms owner blinking on their screen given the shocking level of prejudice and borderline hatred! And all at the thought of having to skim through a patients records for any serious mental health problems or physical impairments that might make them a danger (both of which will have almost certainly been flagged for DVLA requirements if they're a driver)

There also seems to be a streak of paranoia that if they somehow miss something or don't report it as relevant they will be hung out to dry in court. Christ if the police can walk away scot-free after Dunblane and Horden do they really think anyone other than the shooting community is going to get the shaft??

[Rockhopper]

Given the standard of written English being used in some of those responses I'd have to question if they are actually Doctors...

[TattooedGun]

Given the standard of written English being used in some of those responses I'd have to question if they are actually Doctors...

Really? I'd have thought that their handwriting generally gives away their disdain for the written English language...

[GeeRam]

I'm still none the bloody wiser what 'we' are all actually supposed to do, when GP rings up asking for £20 to send a letter back to PLOD in respect of a SGC app.....

Sit and wait 21+ days as directed by our supposed representative bodies (from what I can gather) or pay or ..........?

aaarggh

[dromia]

You do not need to be intelligent to be a doctor, you just need to be able to remember a lot of stuff. The two do not necessarily go together.

[Blackstuff]

You do not need to be intelligent to be a doctor, you just need to be able to remember a lot of stuff. The two do not necessarily go together.

Terrifyingly true.

My wife helps to run the education centre of a very large hospital and the ability to practice medicine and even perform intricate surgery bares little resemblance to what most would refer to as common sense or everyday skills such as coherent writing.

[nickb834]

I recently met a surgeon who can't be trusted to mount a cabinet to a wall..........cut open a living human sure, put four holes in a wall....no

[1066]

Am I the only one who feels uneasy about having the fact that I have firearms at home flagged up on a screen.

With 1.3 million employees working for the NHS, with hundreds of thousands of these employees having access to medical records, there will always more than a few bad eggs.

NHS data loss is appalling and there are plenty of NHS workers who's natural instinct wouldn't be to cheer on an English cricket team.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01 ... data_loss/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23286231

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20 ... data_loss/

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest- ... -executing

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... liban.html