I registered with a new GP on Friday, and as part of the form, you have to fill in your marital status. The options are:
-single
-married
-divorced
-widowed
...That's it. I co-habit (in bureaucratspeak, anyway!) and I'd hazard a guess that a fair number of other people do, too. But there is no way to record this. And, even worse, there is no box for 'civil partnership'.
I'd have thought that they want to record this info to see whether you live with anyone (in case you need help) and to determine next-of-kin rights in an emergency. So leaving cohabitees out is a bad idea, but leaving civil partners out is surely a big problem.
AIBU?
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
AIBU?
To think this is outdated and actually discriminatory?
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RevoltingPeasant · 03/07/2011 21:10
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