There are a number of patients who book their appointments, request repeat medication and can view certain parts of their medical records online.
Patient Access have now improved their system to allow parents and Carers to be authorised to all of the above-mentioned functions for children or the people they care for.
Any patient or Carer wishing to have proxy access will need to sign up to this service by completing a form available at the practice Reception.
The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is an NHS service. It gives you the chance to change how your GP sends your prescription to the place you choose to get your medicines or appliances from.
What does this mean for you?
If you collect your repeat prescriptions from your GP you will not have to visit your GP practice to pick up your paper prescription. Instead, your GP will send it electronically to the place you choose, saving you time.
You will have more choice about where to get your medicines from because they can be collected from a pharmacy near to where you live, work or shop.
You may not have to wait as long at the pharmacy as there will be time for your repeat prescriptions to be ready before you arrive.
Is this service right for you?
Yes, if you have a stable condition and you:
It may not be if you:
How can you use EPS?
You need to choose a place for your GP practice to electronically send your prescription to. This is called nomination. You can choose:
Ask any pharmacy or dispensing appliance contractor that offers EPS or your GP practice to add your nomination for you. You don’t need a computer to do this.
Can I change my nomination or cancel it and get a paper prescription?
Yes you can. If you don’t want your prescription to be sent electronically tell your GP. If you want to change or cancel your nomination speak to any pharmacist or dispensing appliance contractor that offers EPS, or your GP practice. Tell them before your next prescription is due or your prescription may be sent to the wrong place.
Is EPS reliable, secure and confidential?
Yes. Your electronic prescription will be seen by the same people in GP practices, pharmacies and NHS prescription payment and fraud agencies that see your paper prescription now. Sometimes dispensers may see that you have nominated another dispenser. For example, if you forget who you have nominated and ask them to check or, if you have nominated more than one dispenser. Dispensers will also see all the items on your reorder slip if you are on repeat prescriptions.
For more information please visit the NHS Choices website .
Increasingly, patient medical data is shared e.g. between GP surgeries and District Nursing, in order to give clinicians access to the most up to date information when attending patients.
The systems we operate require that any sharing of medical information is consented to by patients beforehand. Patients must consent to sharing of the data held by a health provider out to other health providers and must also consent to which of the other providers can access their data.
e.g. it may be necessary to share data held in GP practices with district nurses but the local podiatry department would not need to see it to undertake their work. In this case, patients would allow the surgery to share their data, they would allow the district nurses to access it but they would not allow access by the podiatry department. In this way access to patient data is under patients’ control and can be shared on a ‘need to know’ basis.
This practice has for many years assigned all of its patients, in all age groups, a named GP. We have listed below the responsibilities of your named GP and we consider that these are not new and do not represent any change to the status quo, but it may be helpful to read that your named GP will continue: To take the lead for ensuring that all appropriate services required under the contract with the practice are delivered to you.
Where required, and based on his/her professional judgement, to work with relevant associated health and social care professionals to deliver a multidisciplinary care package that meets your needs.
To ensure that your physical and psychological needs are recognised and responded to by all relevant clinicians.
To ensure that you have access to a health assessment when requested. We would like to emphasise that your named GP will not be the only GP or clinician to provide care to you from this practice, and that there is no obligation on your named GP to be personally available during the hours that we are open or out of core hours.
Your care can also be co-ordinated amongst our other GP’s and nurses. The main reason for giving you a named GP is purely so that you have a single point of contact that can co-ordinate your care. Our advice to all patients is that where you have a non-urgent medical need, you will receive better continuity of care if you book an appointment with your named GP, even when that might involve an appointment a few days later than is available with an alternative GP. In cases where you require same-day attention, however, and your named GP is not available, please do make it clear to our administrative team that you need to see a different GP.
We are proud to be part of the The NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN:KSS) the clinical research delivery arm of the NHS. The NIHR Clinical Research Network: Kent, Surrey and Sussex is hosted by Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an NHS funded body with the central objective of developing the evidence base to inform the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of illness and disease in primary care. See their website:
http://www.crn.nihr.ac.uk/kent-surrey-and-sussex/
We are actively engaged in Research, mostly in the form of offering our patients the opportunity to be involved in projects run from larger Academic centres, but not involving travelling.
We will always ask for your express consent for involvement in Research, and will explain the full details of the Study prior to enrolling you.
Participation (or declining involvement) in a research project will not affect the standard of care you receive from the practice in any way.
2023/24 GP Earnings report
All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.
The average pay for GPs working in Mid-Sussex Health Care in the last financial year was £106,129 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 4 full time GPs and 9 part time GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.
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.
Your patient record is held securely and confidentially on the electronic system at your GP practice. If you require treatment in another NHS healthcare setting such as an Emergency Department or Minor Injury Unit, those treating you would be better able to give you appropriate care if some of the information from the GP practice were available to them.
This information can now be shared electronically via: The Summary Care Record, used nationally across England
The information will be used only by authorised health care professionals directly involved in your care. Your permission will be asked before the information is accessed, unless the clinician is unable to ask you and there is a clinical reason for access.
If you would like to opt out, please ask reception for our opt out form.
A parent or guardian can request to opt out children under 16 but ultimately it is the GP’s decision whether to create the records or not, because of their duty of care to the child. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 16 and feel that they are able to understand, then you should make this information available to them.
Who Has Access?
Across all health care settings, including urgent care, community care and outpatient departments in England.
Information Source
GP record
Content
For more information visit:
www.digital.nhs.uk
