GMSQP Reference Manual 

PC SCREEN

Conclusion 

A Partnership and a Practice are, intuitively, the same thing. 

However, in NHAIS System terms, when a GP's relationship with a Partnership is 

terminated, we have to consider that he is still part of a Practice (and thus part of a 

PCO) whilst he still has patients allocated to him within the NHAIS System. 

This must be taken into consideration when the Practice to GP relationships are 

maintained using the PC screens: 

If the PC screen is used to set up a new Practice starting on 01/05/98, and 

GP D is not included in the list of GPs belonging to that Practice, then the 

patients still assigned to D will not be considered to belong to that Practice 

and thus not be considered to belong to the corresponding PCO. 

It therefore follows that the GP composition of the Practice should remain 

unaltered until the patients registered with D have been re allocated to other 

GPs. 

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