Your Information

Lawns Medical Practice takes privacy seriously and we want to provide you with information about your rights, who we share your information with and how we keep it secure.

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Lawns Medical Practice use the following organisations to process data on our behalf. They are contractually bound to manage your information securely.

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Lawns Medical Practice is a teaching Practice.

We are excited to announce that our practice is a teaching practice. This means that we are now actively involved in the education and training of medical students who are in Year 4 Module D.

As a teaching practice, we are committed to providing a high standard of medical education to our students, and we strive to offer them hands-on experience in a real-life clinical setting. Our medical students will have the opportunity to observe and assist our experienced GPs during consultations, enabling them to gain valuable clinical experience and skills.

We believe that by providing a supportive and educational environment for medical students, we can contribute to the development of the future generation of healthcare professionals. Our teaching practice also allows us to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in medical education and to constantly improve the quality of care we provide to our patients.

You may encounter some of our medical students assisting our GPs during your consultation. We assure you that our students are closely supervised by our experienced doctors, and your care and privacy remain our top priority at all times.

As a teaching practice, we are proud to be part of the medical education community, and we are committed to making a positive impact on the healthcare profession. We look forward to continuing to provide high-quality care to our patients while also nurturing the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Please read the policy for conditions for which over the counter items should not (routinely) be prescribed in primary care.

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.

The 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.

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 Lawns Medical Practice in the last financial year was £86,558 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 2 full time GPs, 1 part time GP and 1 locum GP who worked in the practice for more than six months.

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.

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.

In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Access to Health Records Act, patients may request to see their medical records. Such requests should be made through the practice manager and may be subject to an administration charge. No information will be released without the patient consent unless we are legally obliged to do so.

Please view our Access To Medical Records Policy.

With your consent we share your medical records with other services involved in your health and care. For full details, please see our sharing leaflet.