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Can a GP at the same practice as a different doctor who performed an operation or procedure on a patient claim an attendance item for normal after-care for that operation or procedure?

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Our urgent care doctor immobilises a fracture and claims item 47361. A different GP, who runs our fracture clinic and took no part in that service, reviews the patient inside the aftercare period. The 2017 GP Post-Operative Treatment Direction lets a GP who did not complete the initial procedure claim an attendance for aftercare. Is that applied per practitioner or per practice? Both doctors work at the same practice and address. Can she claim a general attendance for the review?

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