Sussex wrote:
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Hardly surprising that clinicians don't want the onus of deciding who's fit and proper - legally that's the ultimate responsibility of local authorities, rightly or wrongly:
But are they being asked that?
Our medical forms are merely tick box exercise. The doctor just ticks or puts in the details of what he has observed during the examination.
It's still down to the council to determine if the driver is fit and proper, based on what the medical form states.
Depends on each local authority's procedures (obviously).
But my point about the St Helens thread that I linked to was that there the forms seemed to be putting the onus on the clinicians to decide.
As I said, suspect the clinicians would prefer the onus to be on the LAs, and vice versa from the LAs' perspective.
Of course, legally the onus is on the LAs, but that won't necessarily stop the LAs trying to pass the buck to the GPs, as the St Helens case seemed to demonstrate.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=34516&p=391709Jimbo clearly doesn't like the idea of local authority officials and councillors having the final say, but my point to him was that that's the legal position, rightly or wrongly.