Oliver wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Twyford >>Sent: Monday, 27 February 2006 2:36 PM >> >>The problem is that this sort of conspiracy between officials and >>dissenters can only go so far. The beans will get spilled >>sometime, say >>by the Auditor General >> >> > >We need to spill the beans first (as we are doing right now). While we are >all politely engaging in our little game of civil disobedience, we also need >to be speaking up very loudly via our professional organisations and telling >the Governor that the current rules are unworkable, so that the rules are >changed to fit with reality and common sense. > > Hmm, interesting thread.
At first I would have thought this was clearly illegal. HeSA and HIC keep telling us so. For a valid referral the Feds require a HeSA individual certificate signed document or a piece of paper. However a non-HeSA signed electronic document is certainly a prima facie case that such a document "exists". When the HIC inspectors turn up and demand the referral document, the specialist can argue that it cannot be found but they will get a copy printed and signed by the GP straight away. Perhaps the situation is analogous to the faxed scripts, except this time there is no requirement for the document to be printed on a particular type of paper. One might even argue that documents in GPs' computer systems exist on virtual paper. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
