GP wants to charge excessive fee for Medical Form

dmg24

I am very concerned that you plan to be a teacher, yet you cannot understand the simplest of concepts.

Perhaps when you do qualify you will realise it takes longer than five minutes to fill out even the simplest of forms?

Errata

As with any profession and trade. You pay them for what they know, not merely for what they do.

grandadsmith

Yes its a RIPOFF !!! :mad:

dmg24

grandadsmith wrote: »

Yes its a RIPOFF !!! :mad:

Care to elaborate?

elfen

Think it may be longer than 5 minutes. He may need to have a consultation with you, and all of this will be done outside of office hours unless specified for an appointment.

If you've been there for a while, they may not waive, but they may lower the charges, it depends on the GP really. My old GP never used to charge me for forms, mainly cos me, my sisters, mum and dad all use the same doctor, and my mum can be quite scary, as can I.

olly300

ticket2ride wrote: »

5 mins @ £59 = £708 per hour = rip off.

thanks.

The £59 is obviously the standard fee for completing such forms in your practice, and it's actually unlikely to take 5 minutes to complete it.

As already said:
1. Someone has to get the notes out, as even though your current records may be on computer your old notes are still likely to be on paper.

2. Then the GP has to go through the notes and check they are complete.

Plus if there are any problems the GP will either phone you up, or ask you to come in so the 10 minutes could actually take 45 minutes.

As if you are unhappy about how the GP completed the form you can kick up a fuss.

I've had to get GPs to complete forms for me twice and each time there were problems.

On the first case notes on some of the vaccinations I had at school the Health Authority hadn't sent the information through to my GP. So he wanted to speak to me and see if there was evidence of having some of the vaccinations. (This was the days people still had BCGs)

In the second case the GP I was registered with was asked to complete the form but as I had been receiving treatment from another 2 GPs in the practice so I had to decide which GP I was happy with to complete the form, and confirm that I was happy for particular information to go on the form.

bumpoowee

Unfortunately this seems to be legalised extortion and there isn't much you can do. Very much a case of rip-off Britain. There is a ridiculous exaggeration of the skills of some professions in this country, particularly those in the health and legal sectors. This exaggeration is used to justify ridiculous costs for trivial and straightforward work.

Debt_Free_Chick

bumpoowee wrote: »

Unfortunately this seems to be legalised extortion and there isn't much you can do. Very much a case of rip-off Britain. There is a ridiculous exaggeration of the skills of some professions in this country, particularly those in the health and legal sectors. This exaggeration is used to justify ridiculous costs for trivial and straightforward work.

And in this case - as in very many others - the "consumer" pays, rather than the taxpayer

melancholly

i think the fine line between moneysaving and expecting a free ride can sometimes be blurred! i understand the cost is hard to swallow and perhaps unexpected given some of the attitudes on here that appear to be so common (thank goodness for the usual voices of reason!), but i also don't think it's too excessive or that there is a way out of it.

grandadsmith

This must be a nice little earner,AS IF they dont 'earn' enough.
I believe this 'cost' is outrageous and a con ,to elaborate on :
Its a R I P O F F ! ! ! :mad: