Practice Mission Statement
Lostock Hall Medical Centre will treat ALL patients with respect and regard, and be sensitive to your specific needs.
Your privacy and dignity will be respected at all times.
We aim to provide services that are high quality and striving for constant improvement, provided by suitably qualified, well-trained and motivated staff.
Our aim is for you as patients to be involved with your care and treatment and the support choices available to you.
Lostock Hall Medical Centre is proud to play a key part in the local community.
As part of the Bridgedale Primary Care Network (PCN)
We will aim to collaborate and work in a streamlined way to strengthen relationships within our PCN and build effective community links whilst responding to local, regional, and national initiatives. The projects in the PCN involve working with outreach teams in the local community. This work involves working with the local food banks, offering health checks, lifestyle advice, social prescribing support and assistance and working to tackle health inequalities in the area.
Vision For New Centre
In developing the beautiful historic practice building (Dardsley) where we relocated in 2019, we have developed a vision to establish a significant health & wellbeing centre for the community. This is reflected in our aims to:
- Build on our regionally important expertise in women's health to develop with partners a women's health hub
- To host an extensive range of externally provided primary and secondary care clinics to benefit our patients and patients from neighbouring practices
- To promote good lifestyle choices through a holistic approach to wellbeing
- With partners to celebrate local memories of healthcare in relation to 130 years of medical work at our Dardsley building, as demonstrated through Phase 1 of the Doctor, Doctor project
- To facilitate participation in a wider range of cultural activities such as exercise, singing, dance, reading and art, to promote wellbeing and community networks.
Confidentiality & Medical Records
The practice complies with data protection and access to medical records legislation. Identifiable information about you will be shared with others in the following circumstances:
- To provide further medical treatment for you e.g. from district nurses and hospital services.
- To help you get other services e.g. from the social work department. This requires your consent.
- When we have a duty to others e.g. in child protection cases anonymised patient information will also be used at local and national level to help the Health Board and Government plan services e.g. for diabetic care.
If you do not wish anonymous information about you to be used in such a way, please let us know.
Reception and administration staff require access to your medical records in order to do their jobs. These members of staff are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the medical staff.
Freedom of Information
Information about the General Practitioners and the practice required for disclosure under this act can be made available to the public. All requests for such information should be made to the practice manager.
Practice Freedom of Information Policy
Privacy & Access to Records
In accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and Access to Health Records Act, patients may request to see their medical records. Such requests should be made through the practice manager. No information will be released without the patient consent unless we are legally obliged to do so. The Practice Privacy Notice below highlights how we protect patient information, as well as other data held by the practice such as staff records and the records of applicants for jobs at the practice.
Practice Privacy Notice
Subject Access Requests
Patients wishing to obtain copies of their records or parts of their records can complete and submit this SAR Form
SAR Form
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
The practice manages any risk identified in protecting patient data, such as when we moved records from our old premises to our new site in March 2019.
National Data Opt-Out
Patients can choose to opt out from the use of their data for research and planning purposes. For more information call 0300 3035678 or go to www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters
Complaints
We make every effort to give the best service possible to everyone who attends our practice.
However, we are aware that things can go wrong resulting in a patient feeling that they have a genuine cause for complaint. If this is so, we would wish for the matter to be settled as quickly, and as amicably, as possible.
To pursue a complaint please contact the practice manager who will deal with your concerns appropriately. Further written information is available regarding the complaints procedure from reception.
Complaints Procedure
Complaint Form
Violence Policy
The NHS operate a zero tolerance policy with regard to violence and abuse and the practice has the right to remove violent patients from the list with immediate effect in order to safeguard practice staff, patients and other persons. Violence in this context includes actual or threatened physical violence or verbal abuse which leads to fear for a person’s safety. In this situation we will notify the patient in writing of their removal from the list and record in the patient’s medical records the fact of the removal and the circumstances leading to it.