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Easter - We will be closed Friday 29 March and Monday 1 April - please make sure you have enough medication to last you over the long weekend - order now with your pharmacy or online

FLU INJECTIONS - we still have some left - if you have not had your flu injection book yours before the end off the month!! you may also be eligible for a pneumococcal & shingles injection, if you are we will let you know - we will also be sending out invites for nasal flus for ages 2-3yr olds.

**CORONAVIRUS** Please Click Here for the most up to date information 

Have your say and join our Patient Participation Group - for more details contact Reception!

Introduction - What is Enhanced Access?

From 1st October 2022, GP practices will be providing increased provision of primary care services (enhanced access arrangements) between the hours of 6.30pm and 8.00pm Mondays to Fridays and between 9.00am and 5.00pm on Saturdays. Our building will be hosing this service. If you prefer to be seen in the evenings or weekends please contact the surgery as normal and book an appointment. 

We have a number of different clinicians working with us, GPs, GP Trainees, Practice Nurse, Nurse Associate, Health Improvement Practitioner, Pharmacists, Mental Health Practitioner, TAPP, Paramedics & MSK Practitioner - to help us book you in to see the correct person - Reception will be asking you for your name/dob/tele no & what your appointment is regarding, this is to ensure that 1) you are one of our patients and 2) that you are booked with the correct person which will give them time to prepare for your appointment. You also have the option of either a face to face or telephone appointment.

 

We are taking on NEW patients, if you are in our practice are and would like to register, please pop into the surgery for more details, we are on the right as you come through the door!

 

Practice Policies

Confidentiality & Medical Records

Locked blue folderThe 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 Practioners 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.

Research & Data Collection

The staff at this practice record information about you and your health so that you can receive the right care and treatment. We need to record this information, together with the details of the care you receive, because it may be needed if we see you again.

We may use some of this information for other reasons, for example, to help us to protect the health of the general public generally, to plan for the future, to train staff and to carry out medical and other health research for the benefit of everyone.

We are currently involved in research studies for which we provide anonymised information from patients’ notes. The risk of you being identified from this information is extremely low as all directly identifiable details (name, address, post code, NHS number, full date of birth) are removed from your notes before they are collected for research, and automatic programs to de-personalise any free text (non structured or coded data) are run after information is collected. Individual patients’ records are added into a much larger anonymous database, containing records from millions of patients across the UK. This information is used by researchers outside this practice. The database to which we contribute anonymised records is known as The Health Improvement Network (THIN) . This data may be anonymously linked to other data, such as hospital data. This database is managed by a company outside the NHS which does not have access to your personal details, only to anonymous medical records. The data are used for research into such topics as drug safety, disease patterns, prescribing patterns, health economics and public health. Many of these studies provide useful information to medical staff on diseases, the use of drugs or outcomes of disease or treatment.

These studies may be performed by academic researchers or commercial companies amongst others. However, no researcher has access to your full details such as your name and address, initials or your full date of birth. The researchers are not given information about the GP nor the practice name, address or post code.

If you would like to opt out of this data collection scheme, please let your doctor know and no data from your records will be collected for use in research. This will not affect your care in any way.

If anything to do with the research would require that you provide additional information about yourself, you will be contacted to see if you are willing to take part: You will not be identified in any published results.

A list of published research using the THIN database can be found at http://csdmruk.cegedim.com/THINBibliography.pdf or please contact Michelle Page

Complaints

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Our aim is to give you the highest possible standard of service, and we try to deal swiftly with any problems that may occur.

However, we operate a practice complaints procedure as part of the NHS system for dealing with complaints. Our system meets national criteria.

If you have a complaint or concern about the service you have received from the doctors or any of the staff working in this practice, please let us know.

Our Practice Manager, Joanne Corfield, is our Complaints Manager and will ensure your concerns are dealt with promptly.

Our practice complaints leaflet deals with this subject in more detail and is available, on request, from our Reception.

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.



 
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