Central Park Surgery
Balfour Street
Leyland
Preston
PR25 2TD
Tel: 623110 DIAL 1

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

NHS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION PUBLICATION SCHEME FOR GENERAL PRACTICES

DR K PATEL & DR A R PATEL

CENTRAL PARK SURGERY

BALFOUR STREET

LEYLAND

LANCASHIRE

PR25 2TD

TEL 01772 623110

FAX: 01772 623885

1st April 2008

This Publication Scheme is a complete guide to the information routinely made available to the public by this Practice. It is a description of the information about our General Practitioners and Practice which we make publicly available. It will be reviewed at regular intervals and we will monitor its effectiveness.

How much does it cost?

The publications are all free unless otherwise indicated within each Class. (Where information is provided at a cost the charges will be calculated as set out in Class 7).

How is the information made available?

The information within each Class is available in hard copy from the Practice Manager.

Your rights to information

In addition to accessing the information identified in the Publication Scheme, you are entitled to request information about this practice under the NHS openness Code 1995.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 recognises that members of the public have the right to know how public services are organised and run, how much they cost and how the decisions are made.

From January 1st 2005 the Act will also oblige the General Practice to respond to request about information that it holds, and is recorded in any format and it will create a right of access to that information. These rights are subject to some exemptions which have to be taken into consideration before deciding what information it can release.

New environmental information regulation may be introduced as early as 2003. These will enable similar access to environmental information as under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Subject to certain exemptions, any person who makes a request to a public authority for non-personal information, must be informed, within 20 working days, whether the organisation holds that information and has the right to receive it, if that is the case.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you are also entitled to access your clinical records or any other personal information held about you and you can initially contact the Practice Manager to do this. Please note that there may be exceptional circumstances where this information may not be made available. In these instances the GP/Practice Manager will discuss this with you and will, as far as possible, explain the reasoning behind any decisions.

Feedback

If you have any comments about the operation of the Publication Scheme, or how we have dealt with your request for information from the Scheme, please write to the Practice Manager:

Mrs Anne-Marie Miller

Central Park Surgery

Balfour Street

Leyland

PR25 2TD

TEL 01772 623110

E-MAIL annemarie.miller@nhs.net

Classes Of Information

All information at this practice is held, retained and destroyed in accordance with NHS guidelines. Our commitment to publish information excludes any information which can be legitimately withheld under the exemptions set out in the NHS Openness Code or The Freedom of Information Act 2000. Where individual Classes are subject to exemptions, the main reasons are eg. The protection of commercial interests and personal information under the Data Protection Act 1998. This applies to all Classes within the Publication Scheme. The information on this Scheme is grouped into the following broad categories:

Who we are

This Practice provides general medical services for the geographical area of Leyland

The Full name of each Partner and all other doctors are listed below. We also detail whether they are full or part-time. Senior managers and other senior health professionals are also detailed.

(This information may also be found in our Practice Leaflet and on our website).

DR KETAN PATEL FULL TIME

DR ASHOK PATEL FULL TIME

PRACTICE MANAGER MRS ANNE-MARIE MILLER

PRACTICE NURSE MRS PATRICIA GRIME

Approximated number of Administration Staff: 5

Community Services Nurses

The practice has various contracts in place to be able to access community services (e.g District Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors). These staff are employed by the Central Lancashire PCT and may change from time to time.

This practice adheres to the national General Medical Services Contract.

The practice also adheres to any national or local guidelines and protocols. For instance the practice aims to follow National Institute for Clinical Excellence and National Service Framework guidelines.

Our Services

The range of services we provide under contract to the NHS are:

Family Planning

Ante-natal Care

Child Immunisation

Cervical Smears

Travel Immunisations

Adult Immunisation

Minor Surgery

Well Person Checks

Blood tests/Investigations

Treatment Room

Private Medicals

Asthma

Diabetes

Smoking Cessation

Coronary Heart Disease

Counselling

Podiatry

Child Health Surveillance

Our main practice premises are Balfour Street. Leyland

Our normal surgery opening hours are 8.00am – 6.30pm

When the surgery is closed we utilise the following out of hours service Chorley & District Medical Services Ltd.

This information may also be found in our Practice booklet.

Financial & Funding information

This practice received funding from Chorley & South Ribble PCT according to its contract in exchange for services provided for patients.

The total income received from the NHS before expenses in Account year

1st May 2006– 30 April 2007 was £

The sum spent on drugs prescribed by this practice in financial year 2006/2007 was £

Please note that there may be circumstances where financial information cannot be released because it is confidential or commercial information or the appropriate officer designated for these purposes under the act has taken the view that it may be prejudicial to the conduct of the Practice’s affairs. In these instances the GP/Practice Manager will discuss this with you and will, as far as possible, explain the reasoning behind any decisions. Regular publications & information for the public

Listed below are leaflets, booklets, regular publications etc. that we publish relating to Central Park Surgery Practice Information booklet

Treatment of Common Illnesses & Accidents

Central Park Surgery Website: centralparksurgery.co.uk

Complaints

This practice adopts the Chorley and South Ribble complaints policy which can be found at the following website:-

www.centrallancashire.nhs.uk

If you have a complaint or would like to make any other comment regarding this practice or a health related service that you have been receiving please feel free to use our comments box in reception or contact the Practice Manager as named earlier.

Our policies & Procedures

This Practice has the following policies and procedures used within the practice. These include but are not restricted to:

Confidentiality

Fire Safety

Disciplinary

Grievance

Absence

Health & Safety

IT Computer Security

PCT adopted policies & Procedures

Data protection

Prescribing

Zero Tolerance

Late Policy

DNA Policy

Confidentiality

CCTV code of practice

Prevention of Fraud

Smoking at work

Equal Opportunities/Anti-discrimination

This Publication Scheme

In this class we will publish any changes we make to this Publication Scheme, the criteria on which our information management policies are made and a referral point for all enquiries regarding information management generally in the practice. We will also detail any proposed changes or additions to publications already available.

Cost of Information

For the most part, we will charge you only for hard copies or copying onto media (e.g. CD ROM). Some information is available free, but for others there may be a charge. The charges will vary according to how information is made available and will be reasonable.

a) Via the General Practice/Primary Care Trust web site – Free of charge, although any charges for Internet Service Provider and personal printing costs would have to be met by the individual.

For those without Internet access, a single printout as on the website would be available by post from this practice or the PCT depending on the information required – free of charge. However, requests for multiple printouts, or for archived copies of documents which are no longer accessible or available on the web, may attract a charge for the retrieval, photocopy, postage etc. We will let you know the cost and charges that will have to be paid in advance. We will not provide printouts of other organisation’s websites.

b) Leaflets and brochures – free of charge for leaflets or booklets on, for example, services we offer to the public. A list is available from the practice.

c) E-mail will be free of charge unless it says otherwise.

The charges will be reviewed regularly.

Useful Resources

Web sites:

www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

This is the web site of the Information Commissioner

www.lcd.gov.uk

This is the web site of the Lord Chancellor’s Department

www.foi.nhs.uk

This is the NHS Freedom of information web site

www.central lancashire-pct.nhs.uk

This is the Primary Care Trust web site

Publications

NHS Openness Code www.doh.gov.uk/nhsexec/codemain.htm

FOI Act 2000 www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts2000/2000036.htm

Code of Practice Under Section 45 FOI Act 2000 www.lcd.gov.uk

Code of Practice Under Section 46 FOI Act 2000 www.lcd.gov.uk