Can a Doctor Refuse to See Unvaccinated Patients (non covid related)?

The doctor needs to protect their other patients as well, so rather than it being political it could be to protect others in the waiting room such as babies or the elderly that may be impacted by diseases like measles.

If the patient isn't going to listen to the doctors medical advise then the doctor is perfectly right that they should look for another doctor. In terms of medical advise I doubt a doctor can be compelled to take on any patient legally.

Please, please, without judgement or a debate on vaccines, is her doctor within his right to refuse to see her child?

In really simple terms - yes, a medical professional is within their right to refuse to see anyone provided they have a legitimate reason for their refusal. It doesn’t just come up in the context of vaccination, it comes up in numerous other contexts. The person in question can of course make a complaint to the Medical Council, who will assess whether there is any merit to the complaint -

https://www.healthcomplaints.ie/gp/

Current legislation allows for any healthcare setting to refuse admission to an unvaxxed person.

The GP has to protect the other patients him/herself and the other staff.

GPs remove patients from their “list” all the time for different reasons.

Us your friend in receipt of a medical card? If she is then she has to go to 3 other GP practices and ask to be taken on as a patient. If 3 refuse then she needs to write or email medical card and tell them the names of those that refused. Medical card will take it from there.

Oh I just knew clicking in this would be a "new" account

I am a first responder. I can refuse and would not treat somebody if I was concerned for my own health.

Rule 1. We have a person needing assistance. Do not become a 2nd person needing assistance.......

I kind of agree, and your example is understandable, but in ANY situation, the first person to be taken care of, is yourself. If for whatever reason, you do not feel safe or you feel in danger, you are perfectly entitled to not treat. One casualty is enough. Is it in the code of ethics that a patient has a bigger right to treatment than your own personal safety ?

I can't leave my dogs into doggie day care, kennels etc without proof of shots. My daughter has worked in crèches where children without vacation aren't allowed to join. I don't see why doctors are any different

hes taking a medical position, for his wellbeing, staff and patients..

if a GP doesn’t have full disclosure about a patient’s health he is of the option not to treat them.

A doctor and we can refuse treatment. It is in a published document from the medical council.

https://www.medicalcouncil.ie/news-and-publications/publications/information-for-doctors/guide-to-professional-conduct-and-ethics-for-registered-medical-practitioners.pdf

Section 9 and 10 and also referred to in section 11, Emergencies and considerations of what you can SAFELY do.

Ok. On the basis a vaccination is being refused against doctors advice.

Section 9 of referenced document.

You might also consider refusing treatment

where you believe that your patient is unlikely to co-operate or

make the lifestyle changes required to make the treatment effec-

tive.

There wouldn't be many left in the waiting room if a doctor refused to see all those that ignored his or her medical advice.

Why would you engage any professional if you are not going to follow their advice?

Does that extend to all respiratory illness or just covid?

Maybe we should keep sick people out of waiting rooms?

Although one wonders about the logic at play here.. if this doctor is determined to only treat vaccinated patients then surely one unvaccinated child is little risk to anyone in a clinic full of vaccinated people! It's a rather anti vax position to hold if this qualified medic has little faith in the vaccine at keeping the vaccinated safe..

It's all a bit contradictory really.

Maybe it's more an ideological position that they hold.

But some of the other patients won't have had some vacvines because said vaccine wasn't invented yet when they were the age to get the vaccine.

Should the GP refuse them consultation too?

OP needs more context anyway.

It is possible (likely?) that they mother refuses both the vaccine and the clinic's requirement of getting a PCR test done before visiting the surgery.

Have to say excellent post 👌

How on earth do some posters manage to come into the legal discussion forum and manage to turn an unrelated thread into dole bashing.... It's bad enough in AH and CA without it spilling into other forums as well.

Also as many are saying here he wants to protect his other patients even though everyone in the waiting are coughing sneezing and obviously have an ailment.

It's not the first vaccine that "fails to prevent the disease it was made for". There's a whole plethora of them out there that are designed to either prevent or reduce the effects of the diseases they target, such as the MMR.