On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:01, Chris Scott wrote: > Given that Surgeries close from time to time and servers may be turned > off, GPs may be on leave and not clear their holding area etc. So how > long would Path companies wait until they contacted the surgery in > response to non acknowledged messages?
I like to keep things simple and predictable. If I was a path provider, I would have a messaging system that let's the GP poll the messages instead of actively sending them out. If a message has not been polled in a certain time span, I would simply print it out and send it by mail as it was traditionally done - there are no further safeguards with mailed pathology results after all (eg they never were sent by certified mail) For urgent results not polled same day I would phone. This actually seems the way my current preferred path provider does it for us Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
