Oh really, I can demand my GP to refer me? Ok!
I had to demand mine give me a referral.. Just be careful..that the doctor you are being referred to is still
working....
I waited a year and a 1/2 for the doctors office I was referred to ....to call me to set up an appointment...
Thing was the doctor had retired...a month before my doc referred me.
The doctors secretary kept telling me they would call and the doc I was referred to would not accept any phone calls from patients.
So on my next visit to my doctor I again demanded a referral...and I was handed a photocopy of names and numbers of
doctors that would prescribe...and told to call any or all of them if I liked...I was like WTF....
Anyhow I took it and ended up calling Dr Kammermanns...office and found out he had been charged by the opp
and was no longer doing mmar....paperwork...
His secretary though hooked me up with a consultant...who set me up with a lawyer....and then the lawyer arranged
a meeting with a doctor... They were not cheap either.1000.00 plus gst...but after more than a year and a 1/2 of being run around....
I finally had my paperwork signed...
Mind you I qualified 6 ways to sunday.....which I knew I would....but it was completely unfair....the whole process...
was riddled with hurdles....and red tape......nothing I would call reasonable access.
Good luck as you go forward,,,