GP emails could be 'siezed' by the Courts
GPs internal practice emails regarding commissioning could be seized by courts and used as evidence in legal challenges to treatment decisions, lawyers have warned.
Patients mounting legal challenges to treatment decisions will be able to obtain court orders asking for disclosure of specific categories of documents right down to internal practice level.
Lawyers have suggested that if GPs are used to more quick and informal communication, and see PCTs as slow and bureaucratic in contrast, this could have to change when CCGs took over budgets.
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