Practice Policies & Patient Information
Care.Data
Care.data is a new programme where information on GP records will be shared with the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). This is to help the NHS plan and improve patient care for the whole country. GP surgeries by law have to allow this transfer of information (data).
However, if you choose not to allow information about you to be shared, you can opt out. If you opt out, your GP can put a code on your records so they can’t be shared.
To opt out, please print and complete the below form and then deliver to either surgery.
CQC
Practices are required to publish CQC reports. Please follow the below link to view reports for this Practice.
Fair Processing Notice
Browney House Surgery & Croft View Surgery – Practice Code: A83617
Contact Telephone Number – 0191 373 2860
How we use your information
Our GP practice holds information about you and this document/link outlines how that information is used, with whom we may share that information, how we keep it secure (confidential) and what your rights are in relation to this.
The Health Care Professionals (HCP) who provide you with care, maintain records about your health and any treatment or care you have received previously (e.g. NHS Trust, GP surgery, Community clinics or staff etc.). These records help to provide you with the best possible healthcare.
NHS health records may be electronic, on paper or a mixture of both and we use a combination of working practices and technology to ensure that your information is kept confidential and secure.
Please click on the below link to view the full “How we use your information” document.
Financial Information
NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.
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 this practice for the financial year ending 31 March 2022 was £26,488 before Tax and National insurance. This is for one full time GPs, zero part time GPs and 1 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.
Great North Care Record
Our GP practice holds information about you and this document outlines how that information is used, with whom we may share that information, how we keep it secure (confidential) and what your rights are in relation to this.
The Health Care Professionals (HCP) who provide you with care, maintain records about your health and any treatment or care you have received previously (e.g. NHS Trust, GP surgery, Community clinics or staff etc.). These records help to provide you with the best possible healthcare.
NHS health records may be electronic, on paper or a mixture of both and we use a combination of working practices and technology to ensure that your information is kept confidential and secure.
Please follow the below link by clicking on the blue box. This document fully explains how patient information is shared.
Great North Care Record
This is a local initiative to share medical information in the North East. The information shared is similar to that in the Summary Care Record with Additional Information. Health Professionals at other organisations will only be able to access this information with your permission. The health organisations with whom we share this information are:
- Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS FT
- Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Trust
- North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Northern Doctors Urgent Care (NDUC)CBC Health (GatDoc)
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT
- Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT
- Gateshead Health NHS FT
- South Tyneside NHS FT
- City Hospitals Sunderland NHS FT
- County Durham & Darlington NHS FT
- North Tees & Hartlepool NHS FT
- South Tees Hospitals NHS FT
This information will be shared unless you tell us in writing that you don’t want us to share it. You can opt-out of this scheme – please ask at the surgery or follow the appropriate link.
Please follow the below link by clicking on the blue box. This information leaflet fully explains the Great North Care Record (GNCR).
If you would like to opt out of the Great North Care Record please either:
Download the form, complete, sign and return as per the instructions on the form Opt out form – please click on the red link below to download this form.
or
Call 0344 811 9587 (this line will be managed 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday), outside those hours there will be a dedicated answer service. Calls not answered immediately will be responded to next working day (Monday-Friday). Calls charged at a standard landline rate.
NHS Constitution
Please click on the following link to access the Practice NHS Constitution Document.
North Durham Clinical Commissioning Group
Please click on the below link to view all of the up to date information regarding the North Durham CCG.
The Summary Care Record
A Summary Care Record is an electronic record which contains information about the medicines you take, allergies you suffer from and any bad reactions to medicines you have had.
Having this information stored in one place makes it easier for healthcare staff to treat you in an emergency, or when your GP practice is closed.
To opt out, please print and complete the below form and then deliver to either surgery.