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PLEASE NOTE FROM -1 MARCH 2021 - THIS SURGERY WILL CLOSE EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 1PM.

FLU VACCINE - NOW AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE AGED 50 YEAR AND OVER 

Please ensure we have your up to date address and telephone number as we frequently use text messages to contact our patients.  Thankyou

Do you have a cough persistent for more than 3 weeks ?  - Please contact us and make an appointment to have a telephone consultation with a GP.

If you need a REPEAT prescription you can either contact the surgery as normal by phone after 10am each day or email your prescription request to Reception.Z00166@gp.hscni.net stating the medications you require and nominate a local pharmacy for these to be forwarded to OR WHY NOT REGISTER FOR ONLINE SERVICES.  Please only order medications which are due.  

  

Practice Policies

Confidentiality & Medical Records

Locked blue folderThe practice complies with GDPR. 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.

Access to Records

Please contact the surgery if you wish to have access to your Medical Records under the General Data Protection Regulation (25.5.2018)   

Complaints

Customer service formWe 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.

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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