BMA: external un-resourced workload

  • Template letters

Letter templates, guidance, case studies and other practical resources from the BMA's campaign to help you manage your daily work.

Click here to access the page, which includes this set of template letters:

  • Secondary care work transfer
  • Inappropriate prescribing requests
  • Requests to follow up investigations performed in other settings
  • Requests for post-operative checks
  • Letter to hospital provider regarding discharge of patients after missed appointment
  • Letter to local ICB regarding discharge of patients after missed appointment
  • Letter to IBC regarding inappropriate workload transfer
  • Letter for request to complete non-contractual administrative task
  • Requests for work absence sick notes for less than seven days
  • Letter to area team regarding delay to information request or payment
  • Letter to hospital provider regarding follow up of diagnostic test results following a patient’s discharge from hospital
  • Letter to ICB in response to requests to follow up investigations performed in other settings and diagnostic test results following a patient’s discharge from hospital.

These documents were initially published as part of the BMA’s ‘Qualify First’ campaign.

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