Solo GP in hot water over lack of home visits to elderly patient
Patient reviews consisted of occasional home visits and notes made by his practice nurse.
A solo GP has been suspended for three months after a patient’s family reported him to AHPRA for refusing to prescribe her regular medications and failing to review her in person.
The GP first began treating the woman back in 1994 through regular consults at his practice in a socially deprived Melbourne suburb.
By 2006, he began prescribing temazepam for sleep problems and then, in 2013, 100mg of tramadol to treat pain in her hips and legs.
In 2017, the patient’s son told the doctor she no longer was willing to attend the clinic.
