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... in response to GPs urged to publicise patient rights
  1. Patient Rights
    Tracy Marchant Tracy Marchant United Kingdom says:
    August 13, 2012 at 5:47 AM

    There are too many GPs who have no intention of informing patients about their rights as outlined in the NHS constitution.

    Even if they do publicise it, God forbid any patient that tries to claim their rights and challenges a GP if they don't get them.

    GPs need to be held accountable and until that happens there will be no change in the cultural attitude that abounds in the professions i.e. a GP knows best and all patients are idiots and don't know what's good for them.

    A constitution is lauadable and a step in the right direction but enforcing adherance to that constitiution shouldn't rest on the shoulders of vulnerable patient's.

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