Setting your own fees for external patients

Types of work

• Medico-legal (not covered in our existing medico-legal guidance).
• Statements of fact.
• Signing photo card driving licences.
• Attendance at airports.
• Attendance at patient’s request at a police station
  Professional attendance at private events (including sporting events).
• Lectures e.g. 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 or pilots: full medical examination and completion of forms for vocational drivers licence (large goods vehicles and passenger carrying vehicles, taxi etc.
• Fitness to drive for insurance purposes (elderly driver, racing driver etc).
• Aviation licence (pilots).
• Fitness for sport.
• 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 NHS list.
• Vaccination and immunisation for travel abroad.