GPs must help patients obtain firearms licences if requested

[Christel]

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

No, you are not the only one. I for one cannot see how this will prevent a tragedy in the future.

[Gazza]

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.

Very eloquently put

Seriously though, I'm not at ease with it either as the term "healthcare professional" encompasses the receptionist these days.
I know this because it was the surgery's receptionist who rang me up to say that plod had sent a letter to them after I applied for the FAC.

[Gazza]

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

And I think the cabinet hanger did the surgery on my feet

[Sim G]

Harold Shipman killed a lot more people than my guns ever did....

As did John Bidkins Adams or
Beverly Allitt or
Benjamin Green or
Victorino Chauo....

Yeah, doctors and nurses, they're the ones to trust!!!

[bradaz11]

Assuming all partners at a practice wish to conscientiously object, what alternative is being recommended? I need to have an alternative course of action that I can invoke otherwise I am being forced to engage in a process which I disagree with, which presumably infringes on my human rights.

Does their personal view affecting our personal life also infringe our human rights?
Can you conscientiously object to someone playing cricket? Why is our sport able to be objected to?
Going of to war to kill people, fair enough. But shooting?

Also the paperwork just says we own firearms not what we use them for. So someone that objects to stalking refusing Any fac holder is unfair if you don't stalk

[Little Phil]

I must have a good Doctor then. When I approached him about my shot gun cert, his reply was, "let me know what you want and I will attend to it". Just as simple as that.

Phil*

[X2001xr]

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.

or be able to use http://patient.info

[X2001xr]

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.

Don't forget the suppliers of the systems, but that being said http://systems.digital.nhs.uk/infogov/l ... ld2rev.pdf should solve the issue.

[Gazza]

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.

or be able to use http://patient.info

I just typed "firearms application" in to that as an illness with some interesting results!

[GeeRam]

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.

Very eloquently put

Seriously though, I'm not at ease with it either as the term "healthcare professional" encompasses the receptionist these days.
I know this because it was the surgery's receptionist who rang me up to say that plod had sent a letter to them after I applied for the FAC.

Exactly....same here, I also know in my case said receptionist would have made the call from the communal reception area in earshot of probably a dozen of more people, and in the area I live, that doesn't fill me with confidence......

As ever, the idiots that dream up this crap don't live in the real world.