Form Query

[105Arrow]

Hi

Apparently, there is a form which is used to track(?) med docs as they move around and which may, I believe, be called an F/Med 591 - is this correct?

If so, what is it's proper title, and how is it used?

 

[freudian slip]

You are correct, FMed 591 exists as a tracker for medical docs. The Medical centre that sends your docs anywhere either by hand or post insert an FMed 591 which is completed by the receiving medical authority and a tear off slip is returned to the originator.

Hope this helps.

 

[105Arrow]

F/Med 591

F/Med 591

Hi

Thanks for that.

How does the despatching Med Ctr know where a set of docs has been sent to and, therefore, that they are expecting a tear-off to be returned?

(you can probably guess why I'm asking...!)

 

[mememe]

Hi

Thanks for that.

How does the despatching Med Ctr know where a set of docs has been sent to and, therefore, that they are expecting a tear-off to be returned?

(you can probably guess why I'm asking...!)

The tear off advice is flawed. The 591 comes in book format (RAF FORM 591). when the med cent is advised of a movement/posting etc., they will send it to where ever that is. They dont (shouldn't) send to civi hospital although mdhu's are the exception. When the fmed 4 (med doc) arrives, the receiver will sign the bottom of the 591 and return. If it hasn't been returned in approx 30 days the med cent staff chase up.
If the med doc is lost, there is a formal procedure/policy/QR to follow.

 

[True Blue Jack]

Arrow, you are talking about the RAF Form 591, which is not specific to the medics but is a generic "Receipt for personal documents".

They used to come in books with carbon paper. The orange original would go in the envelope with the documents to be signed and returned by the receiving unit while the carbonated copy would stay with the originator to be married up with the original once signed.

The orange books are now obsolete although there are a lot of electronic versions around because they are useful, especially when a unit to which you have sent docs tries to deny they ever had them.

Why do you ask?

 

[105Arrow]

Arrow, you are talking about the RAF Form 591, which is not specific to the medics but is a generic "Receipt for personal documents".

They used to come in books with carbon paper. The orange original would go in the envelope with the documents to be signed and returned by the receiving unit while the carbonated copy would stay with the originator to be married up with the original once signed.

The orange books are now obsolete although there are a lot of electronic versions around because they are useful, especially when a unit to which you have sent docs tries to deny they ever had them.

Why do you ask?

The situation is a bit more complex than I could go into but, simply put, the "owning" med ctr sent med docs to "nearest" med ctr prior to Med Board. Nearest med ctr never received them and owning med ctr are unable to say where the med docs were actually sent to...

 

[105Arrow]

Form Query

Yay!

Med docs found, at Med Centre, Brompton Barracks....

 

[ninjarabbi]

Sounds a bit strange. Why did they send your records to the nearest med centre and not direct to the med boards department? Must be another med centre run by lowly trained chimps (ours are all highly trained of course!). TBJ was wrong in one respect, the RAF F591 is alive and well and still in use by the RAF Medical Services.

 

[Downsizer]

Problem solved, and as such, shut.