AIBU to think this GP list validation is OTT?

[MsGreying]

The GP Practice have sent out a message via the app (biometrically connected to me) to make sure that I am a person and not a ghost.

https://quaysidemedicalpractice.co.uk/ghost

What’s happening?
The NHS is reviewing GP registers to remove people who have moved away or can no longer be contacted. It’s a routine process called list validation (sometimes called “list cleansing”).

The problem: it’s moving quickly, and patients who still live locally and still want to be registered are sometimes being removed — often simply because they didn’t reply to a letter they thought was junk.

Optics: You've died, you might not be a ghost cos most people don't believe in them. Does the NHS believe in Ghosts?

Anyone with issues leading to them being unable to manage their own affairs may well fall foul of this and be unlisted!

Sending out 68M plus letters sounds like an interesting challenge for any organisation.

This feels insane. Who thought this up?

In theory when you move and register at a new practice, the old one takes you off their list when they transfer your records. I suspect that registering is low on peoples priorities if they don't have a continuing health problem and rarely see a GP, certainly in the past I was registered at a local practice for several years and never used their services.

"Tell us once" should tell them surely?

That's amazing.
So much better than the local system which was at one point to either cancel your appointment when you arrived at adult medicine in person (by printing it out and giving it you) or by writing to you to say you've been took off the list because you didn't attend an appointment no one told you about.

Nail on the head. Similar to the waspi's who claim they didn't know the pension age was changing, despite information being all over the media, magazines, TV, leaflets in GP waiting rooms, etc for years! People need to take responsibility for themselves. Actually opening envelopes and reading letters is a pretty basic thing and the recipient has no grounds for complaint if they can't be bothered!

Insanely, no it's doesn't!! Nor does it notify hospitals in case the deceased was on a waiting list! The fragmentation of the NHS must be one of the major reasons why it's virtually failed.

No it doesn’t. I’m not aware of any organisation that notifies us apart from other parties that might be involved with the deceased, and thinks to tell us.

Oh joy.
We had post. A huge pile. No post for weeks.
No GP letter for us.

However in-laws have one for her in their huge pile of post.. Dated 29th July. 30 days to fill in the form. So that one is just in time but presumably it'll be weeks before we get post again.

What a crock of expletives.