PSD Procedure Following Receipt of a Missing Family Alert Form ( MFA1) or Child Missing from Education Form ( CME1)
Practitioner Services
Practitioner Services, which is part of National Services Scotland, is responsible for making payments to all Family Health Service ( FHS) Contractors in Scotland, Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacists and Opticians, and also for maintaining indices of patients registered with doctors and dentists. These functions are performed on behalf of all NHS Boards in Scotland. The Division also supports the Scottish Executive Health department in implementing changes in legislation and contractual arrangements for FHS contractor groups.
The three Regional Medical Offices within Practitioner Services provide a range of support in relation to General Medical Services ( GMS). The teams register patients with family doctors on the population database, the Community Health Index ( CHI), maintain the integrity of the index, transfer the medical records of register patients and make payments under the terms of the new General Medical Contract. The teams also monitor and review the payments made, which include verification with patients that the service has been provided.
More information can be provided on: www.show.scot.nhs.uk/psd
- On receipt of MFA1 or CME1, PSD Aberdeen will send a copy to PSD Edinburgh ( FAO Rosalind Dolan) & Glasgow ( FAO Janet Mair).
- All 3 offices will check CHI for missing family.
- If traced, PSD will contact the nominated nurse consultant (list to be distributed with Protocol) in the Health Board area in which the family has been found.
- If family not traced, the Form should be filed in pending folder & a check made on CHI for family on a weekly basis. (Follow above procedure if traced).
- NB. If a family is found, the nurse consultant who first raised the MFA1 or CME1 Form will advise PSD by re-circulating the original MFA1
- MFA1 or CME1 form should be destroyed 3 months after first received or on receipt of "Family Found" information.