Confidentiality
Information about patients is confidential and will only be shared between doctors and the health care team. We will need your permission before providing anyone else with information.
However anonymous information about patients may be used for research, audits, teaching medical staff and students, protecting public health and to organize health care services.
We also train qualified doctors to become GP's. Because we are a training practice we will sometimes be visited by inspectors. This may involve a visiting GP looking at a small number of patients'records.
Visiting inspectors assessing patient medical records are bound by the same code of confidentiality as practice GP's. If you do not want your records to be accessed in this way we would ask you to write to the Practice Manager.
Exercising the right to opt out
If you do not wish for your records to be uploaded to the national electronic records please could you let the doctor or reception staff know. You will then be given a form to sign which will be scanned into your records and will also be read coded in your computer records.
Videoing consultations
Doctors make videos of their consultations. We use these:
- to help teach doctors how to assess patients
- to help doctors improve their consultation skills and how they talk to patients
- as part of a doctor's assessment for their membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
We will always get your permission before videoing your consultation, and check with you again afterwards. There is an information leaflet at reception.
Students
We are a training practice and we have student doctors and nurses sitting in on clinics and surgeries. We feel that the experience they gain while they are with the practice is very important. The receptionists will tell you if there is a student with the doctor or nurse.
Your help in the education of these students is greatly appreciated, but if you do not want a student to be present, please tell reception.