EICR coding for no RCD protection in doctors surgery.

The question is whether the medical locations in the practice merit a different code - the requirement for RCD protection in 710.411.4 applies in the same way at home nowadays.

I think C2, but there may well be a range of opinion in here (as usual).

Probably is a C2 to the letter but to suggest it is potentially dangerous and needs rectifying urgently (the wording on the forms) is ridiculous. 

No room for common sense 

Gary

What amendment of BS 7671 are you coding to?

Thanks for the replies been there this evening after hours to make headway the EICR and been thinking about it. I agree it must now be a C2. Group 1 with examination and treatment rooms. Lots of plugged in items with exposed/extraneous conductive parts and the public now back in there it must all be on RCD. Not got the new bible yet waiting for the NIC man to tell me I have to buy it.....

I had a similar problem with a local GP surgery too. They had no risk assessment and had staff bringing own electrical equipment - mainly phone chargers. I coded it a CODE-2. They tried to "negotiate" with me to get it changed as they were going to move out the building soon - the practice is still there six years later. I got the impression budgets were very tight. Strangely I have not been invited back and I suspect they either ignored it, or got somebody else in to give them the answer they were looking for.

The old gents (and ladies of a certain age) in here may remember when a GP's surgery consisted of a consulting room and a waiting room at the back of his house. Later, when GPs started practising together, they owned their own premises and, in effect, the NHS paid a rent. Nowadays AFAIK, working in NHS-owned premises is normal.

I suspect that the bean counters seek to allocate the meanest of budgets and the doctors can do nothing about it.