Fees for part-time medical services
Public health medicine and community health
Fees may be accepted for services outside the doctor’s normal duties which do not interfere with their NHS commitments, eg:
- work as a medical referee (or deputy) to a cremation authority and signing confirmatory cremation certificates
- medical examinations in relation to staff health schemes of local authorities and to driving licences
- lectures to other than NHS staff
- medical advice in a specialised field of communicable disease control, eg for membership of a departmental panel for infectious disease
- work for water companies, including medical examinations in relation to staff health schemes
- attendance as a witness in court (other than in the course of an officer’s normal duties)
- medical examinations and reports for commercial purposes, eg certificates of hygiene on goods to be exported or reports for insurance companies
- advice to bodies, including NHS authorities other than the doctor’s employing authority, on matters on which the doctor is acknowledged to be an expert
- examinations and recommendations made under Part II of the Mental Health Act 1983 (see note below).
Note: In Scotland: Part V of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984.