BASC medical panel saves members more than £100k

[Conor O'Gorman]

More than 2,000 BASC members have used a service launched to bypass unhelpful GPs – saving a total of at least £120,000.

Launched two years ago, the aim of BASC’s medical panel referral system was to provide a dedicated BASC service to ensure a speedy resolution to members who were being let down and delayed by unhelpful GPs during the firearms licensing process.

The service links applicants with medical professionals to help secure medical verification. It also assists applicants who are either unhappy with being charged exorbitant fees by their own GP or those facing delays because their GP is refusing to take part in the process.

The highest fee we have been made aware of is £360 for medical verification, but by using the service, which costs in the region of £50, members have each saved at least £60.

BASC medical panel saves members more than £100k

More than 2,000 members have bypassed unhelpful GPs to secure a firearms licence by using our medical panel service.

basc.org.uk

 

[potshotpat]

Was it not free. ?? As in no charges from YOUR Doctor. You really couldn't make this up. I would suggest there might be dodgy shooters with contacts with dodgy Doctors ( for a fee)

 

[Dalua]

The highest fee we have been made aware of is £360 for medical verification, but by using the service, which costs in the region of £50, members have each saved at least £60.

It's worth reminding ourselves (we who are BASC members, at least) that the highest fee before BASC's involvement in agreeing the current system was £0 - as the FLDs quite reasonably had to pay the fee themselves when they thought a GP's involvement would be useful.

 

[enfieldspares]

Wow! And if BASC hadn't been out manoeuvered by the much clever Home Office into supposedly think that there was an agreement for medical input in return for ten year FACs and SGCs then "shooters" would have been saved even more. As in the status quo ante of ne GP reply (which cost the shooter zero, zilch, nada, meant that the GP had expressed no concern.

Then Lincolnshire Police "tried it on" I understand and BASC decided that a Judicial Review of that policy would be too expensive. No doubt the money had all gone on driven days at Catton Hall? So now emboldened by this lack of proactive strong riposte the "authorities" gave us what then was "de facto" compulsory medical input.

So by that "de facto" state of affairs it was but a small small step to Priti Patel's now "de jure" requirement. The same as they'd have been saved further loss if BASC hadn't created their voluntary lead ban initiative which has cut from underfoot any platform to now oppose the proposed mandatory lead ban in DEFRA's consultation.

The UK hasn't seen such negotiating skills since those of the late Neville Chamberlain at Munich! Saved shooters £120,000? You should be hanging your heads in shame at Marford Mill. Abject failure is nothing to boast about. And all that money spent on driven days at Catton Hall? Yet still this went through as a 100% requirement for ALL to have medical input? More akin to disappointing, dismal and derelict.

 

[Rory]

 

[Woodsmoke]

BASC is a bloody embarrassment. I can't believe you have the brass neck to be on here still, to be honest. Talk about thick-skinned.

 

[Rory]

BASC is a bloody embarrassment. I can't believe you have the brass neck to be on here still, to be honest. Talk about thick-skinned.

No no, I prefer they stay, as Sun Tzu said:
'The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.'

 

[Free range rob]

More than 2,000 BASC members have used a service launched to bypass unhelpful GPs – saving a total of at least £120,000.

Launched two years ago, the aim of BASC’s medical panel referral system was to provide a dedicated BASC service to ensure a speedy resolution to members who were being let down and delayed by unhelpful GPs during the firearms licensing process.

The service links applicants with medical professionals to help secure medical verification. It also assists applicants who are either unhappy with being charged exorbitant fees by their own GP or those facing delays because their GP is refusing to take part in the process.

The highest fee we have been made aware of is £360 for medical verification, but by using the service, which costs in the region of £50, members have each saved at least £60.

BASC medical panel saves members more than £100k

More than 2,000 members have bypassed unhelpful GPs to secure a firearms licence by using our medical panel service.

basc.org.uk

Are you for real, Basc saddle us with compulsory gp reports and now your telling us how much you have saved the shooting community, jog on.

 

[Lancaster]

More than 2,000 BASC members have used a service launched to bypass unhelpful GPs – saving a total of at least £120,000.

Launched two years ago, the aim of BASC’s medical panel referral system was to provide a dedicated BASC service to ensure a speedy resolution to members who were being let down and delayed by unhelpful GPs during the firearms licensing process.

The service links applicants with medical professionals to help secure medical verification. It also assists applicants who are either unhappy with being charged exorbitant fees by their own GP or those facing delays because their GP is refusing to take part in the process.

The highest fee we have been made aware of is £360 for medical verification, but by using the service, which costs in the region of £50, members have each saved at least £60.

BASC medical panel saves members more than £100k

More than 2,000 members have bypassed unhelpful GPs to secure a firearms licence by using our medical panel service.

basc.org.uk

Thanks for the propaganda update.
Please remind those at the media centre of Lincoln's speech, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

 

[Ade8mm]

I can't help noticing , when Mr O'Gorman posts something on here he never seems to respond to any of the comments
Light the blue touch-paper and stand back.
Elsewhere such behaviour would result in the OP being accused of trolling.
What gives?
I will however give him 10 out of 10 for thick skin.

 

[Lancaster]

I can't help noticing , when Mr O'Gorman posts something on here he never seems to respond to any of the comments
Light the blue touch-paper and stand back.
Elsewhere such behaviour would result in the OP being accused of trolling.
What gives?
I will however give him 10 out of 10 for thick skin.

He gets paid to have a thick skin from behind his keyboard....

 

[T.eddie]

I think some people need to calm down and remember he is doing his job

 

[Husky]

I can't help noticing , when Mr O'Gorman posts something on here he never seems to respond to any of the comments
Light the blue touch-paper and stand back.
Elsewhere such behaviour would result in the OP being accused of trolling.
What gives?
I will however give him 10 out of 10 for thick skin.

@Connor O'Gorman has responded helpfully to questions I have asked of him regarding his posts.

 

[Salop lad]

Calm down !!!!!! Doing his job !!!!!????? What feeding total BS to people. The BASC are a total sell out to the shooting population !

 

[T.eddie]

Calm down !!!!!! Doing his job !!!!!????? What feeding total BS to people. The BASC are a total sell out to the shooting population !

If you don't like what basc say then don't read it, if you have a complaint then make a complaint, but everyone deserves respect

 

[Irish Bob]

If anyone seriously believes that the medical report requirement would not have been introduced irrespective of BASC’s involvement they are seriously deluded.

The old system worked on the basis of if they heard nothing everything was fine. This approach clearly has its flaws.

The new approach requires a positive confirmation that everything is ok.

 

[Mike L]

I see it’s Conor’s turn in the barrel again.

 

[B&W FOX]

I think some people need to calm down and remember he is doing his job

Salary paid by the membership

 

[T.eddie]

Salary paid by the membership

Do you take the same attitude with other people doing their job, i.e. my tax pays your wages? I for one don't. If I'm not happy with something I'll complain properly. How that person gets paid for doing their job doesn't come into it

 

[Free range rob]

Do you take the same attitude with other people doing their job, i.e. my tax pays your wages? I for one don't. If I'm not happy with something I'll complain properly. How that person gets paid for doing their job doesn't come into it

I often agree with your posts, and I kind of do on this one, however,
He is paid to put this stuff on here, he is the ‘front’ man for Basc as far as SD directory goes so to speak.
Therefore, whilst I think the gripe is against Basc in general, he is the face here who posts everything and the one who gets all the responses.
I have never met him, have no idea what kind of bloke he is, could be the nicest guy in the world, but for me he is the Basc rep, posting this nonsense on behalf of Basc, he gets the responses.
What I do think, the tone of the thread, the types of replies, shows how folk are now feeling with Basc, not just on this matter but across the board, I for one am done with them.
All that said, it should not turn into a personal attack.