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Update: Please allow 4 WORKING DAYS NOTICE between ordering and collecting medication.

New HRT Prescription Prepayment Certificate (PPC) comes into effect from 1st April '23. www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/hrt-ppc


Interpreting Services - Oxfordshire CCG has a Direct Dial Service to speed up access to Language and Deaf Interpreting Services. We are able to offer this service at the Surgery. See our Accessibility Information

Practice Policies

Infection Control

Read our Annual Infection Control Statement

Confidentiality & Medical Records

Locked blue folderThe 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, do 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

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.

Complaints

Customer service form

Please let us know if you have a comment or suggestion about the service that we offer.

There is a suggestion box in the waiting room and although some of the requests are a little unusual such as the one asking for pillows, we do read them all and try and respond where we can.

If you are unhappy with any aspect of the service, please speak to a member of staff as soon as possible so that we can put things right.

A leaflet outlining the way in which we deal with complaints, is available from reception or can be downloaded by clicking on the links below:

Click HERE to download our Complaints Leaflet

If you would like to speak to someone outside the surgery, please call the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) on 0800 052 6088.

SEAP is an independent charity that can help and support you if you would like to make a complaint but find it too daunting. More details of their service are available here http://www.seap.org.uk/.

Zero Tolerance Policy

Cropredy Surgery operates a zero tolerance policy to any abuse or bad behaviour towards its staff, doctors or other patients. This could be physical, verbal or online abuse.

 

GPs and staff have a right to care for others without fear of being attacked, abused or treated badly in any way. To successfully provide our services, a mutual respect between staff and patients has to be in place. All our staff aim to be polite, helpful, and sensitive to all patients’ individual needs and circumstances. We would respectfully remind patients that very often staff could be confronted with a multitude of varying and sometimes difficult tasks and situations, all at the same time.

 

However, aggressive behaviour, be it physical, verbal or online, will not be tolerated and may result in you being removed from the practice list and, in extreme cases, the police being contacted.

 

In order for the practice to maintain good relations with our patients we would like to ask all our patients to read and take note of the occasional types of behaviour we see that are unacceptable:

  • Using bad language, shouting or raising of voices at practice staff. 
  • Any physical violence towards any member of our team, other patients or users of the building.
  • Verbal abuse towards staff or patients in any form including bullying, intimidation or demeaning language.
  • Racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic or other intolerant language, discrimination or sexual harassment will never be tolerated.
  • Persistent or unrealistic demands that cause stress to staff will not be accepted. Requests will be met wherever possible and explanations given when they cannot be met.
  • Being perceived to bully or manipulate a staff member to obtain something.
  • Causing damage to, stealing or not returning practice equipment from the practice's premises, staff or patients.
  • Obtaining drugs and/or medical services fraudulently.
  • Behaving in a provocatively rude/aggressive manner.

The NHS Constitution

The principles and values of the NHS in England, and information on how to make a complaint about NHS services. See link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nhs-constitution-for-england



 
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