Setting your own fees for external patients

Examples of work

• Medico-legal (not covered in our existing medico-legal guidance).
• Statements of fact.
• Simple counter-signature as a person of standing in a regulated profession on a document (for example, driving licences and citizenship applications).
• Attendance at airports.
• Attendance at patient’s request at a police station
• Professional attendance at private events (including sporting events).
• Lectures eg for a college of further education.
• Removal of a pacemaker prior to disposal of a body.

Reports

• Court exemption: from attending as a witness on medical grounds.
• Drivers: full medical examination and completion of forms for vocational drivers licence (for example, large goods vehicles and passenger carrying vehicles, taxi).
• Fitness to drive for insurance purposes (for example, for a racing driver or powerboat).
• Aviation licence (pilots) - these can only be performed by Civil Aviation Authority approved medical examiners.
• Fitness for exercise or hazardous activities (for example, scuba diving and parachuting).
• Patients for self-referral overseas.
• Seat belt exemption.

Certificates

• Private prescription for private patient, or drugs required for travel abroad (private or NHS patient).
• Abortion (confirmatory) certificate; second certificate under the Abortion Act 1967 in cases where the patient is not on the GP's practice NHS list.
• Vaccination and immunisation for travel abroad.