Optometrist Jane Fisher, founder of the Eye Bus mobile practice (News 24.10.10), has succeeded in her appeal against Dorset Primary Care Trust's rejection of her application for a GOS mandatory services contract.
The original application was to provide a mobile ophthalmic service by means of the specially equipped minibus to cater for patients who experience difficulty or inconvenience travelling from rural locations to high street practices.
The basis of the PCT's decision was that it did not believe it could award a contract to Fisher in the absence of fixed premises from which her contract would be carried out as her application didn't fit 'within the definition given in the regulatory framework'. In a letter to Fisher informing her of the rejection, the PCT stated: 'For a mandatory contract the services to be provided are at a contractor's practice premises. The panel determines that by inference this means a fixed premises. The Eye Bus concept falls outside the definition of a fixed premises.'
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