Dore Talk

With all the hooraah surrounding financial difficulties and the closing of the centre's, I'm surprised no one has dug up the legal responsibilites to patients/clients, if any, in OZ and UK when a treating facility shuts down. What ARE the legal obligations and arrangements that have to be made in this kind of situation?

Here in the US, if that would happen to a physician's office (I know of one personally) the employees, doctor, and patients all showed up to a locked door!  Legally, all the patient records and such legally had to be transferred to another physician to ensure continuity of care.

What do the legalities that govern such domains say about that in OZ and UK?

Interesting question Frazzle and appropriate, it would be interesting to find out. The only thing I do know is that Dore was considered a altenative therapy here in the UK, the experts were in disagreement as to whether CDD existed at all. I can see the geneal consensus by the governing bodies here in the UK would be that we chose the treatment and we have to sort it ourselves putting it back into Dore's court!!!! Ellie XXX

FrazzleDazzle, I've been told that in the US then Dore wouldn't be counted as a 'medical treatment' in the same way as a Drs office, so they'd not have a legal responsiblity to clients in the same way.

At a guess, in the UK we have the NHS as treatment provider should private organisations go under, so you'd probably be expected to go back to that. Not sure there though.