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We are confident that our website will provide clear and concise help and give our patients the information they require in an easy and convenient format. It has been designed with the patient’s needs at the forefront of everything, from checking surgery times to letting us know what you think of us.

Serving You

Our dedicated team are here to treat those minor ailments that occur as well as providing specialist management of long-term conditions and clinics covering a wide range of healthcare issues. The technology also means you can now do a lot of things from the comfort of your home such as order a repeat prescription or cancel an appointment.

Partners in Care

Once registered, patients and healthcare professionals work together to ensure the most appropriate care is provided. This partnership philosophy extends even further and our active patient group exists to make sure that patient needs and the practice offering are always heading in the same direction.

Management and Review of Medicines

The Practice may conduct Medicines Management Reviews of medications prescribed to our Patients. This service performs a review of prescribed medications to ensure that patients receive the most appropriate, up to date and cost effective treatments. This service may be provided directly by the Practice or by members of the Sheffield CCG Medicines Management Team or by Primary Care Sheffield Medicines Management Team.

Patients' Charter

You have a right to be treated as an individual and with courtesy and respect at all times, irrespective of your ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or the nature of your health problems.

• You have a right to information about your own health. This may include:

• Any illness and its treatment
• Alternative forms of treatment
• Possible side effects of treatment
• Duration and development of the illness
• Likelihood of recovery
• How to prevent or avoid the illness recurring
• Any other information you request unless you express a wish to the contrary.

• You have a right to see your health records subject to limitations in law.
• You have a right to see full information on the services we offer.
• You are ultimately responsible for your own health and that of your children.
• You should take advice from your practice to prevent ill health wherever possible. For example, you should avoid smoking and if you drink you should do so sensibly and in moderation.
• Waiting lists to see specialists may be long. It is your responsibility to inform both the hospital and practice if you cannot keep or no longer need an appointment with a specialist. If you have been on an in-patient hospital waiting list for more than four months, you can ask to be referred to a Treatment Centre for treatment of problems such as arthritis of the hip, cataracts, hernias and varicose veins.
• You have a right to a health check when joining the practice.
• You have a right to request routine vaccinations and immunisations for yourself and your children.
• You have a right to know the names of the doctors and other professional staff involved in your care.
• A doctor can see many more patients within surgery times than during home visits. It is therefore your responsibility to come to the surgery for appointments unless you are prevented by serious illness or infirmity. When it is necessary to request a home visit please try and do so before 10.00am unless a genuine emergency arises later.
• It is your responsibility to request an emergency visit, or an urgent appointment only when you think it is truly necessary.
• You have a right to confidentiality.
• Ongoing training of doctors is always necessary in general practice and this may sometimes take place during your consultation. Your co-operation in allowing this to be carried out helps to achieve better standards of practice.  You have a right to ask anyone present, other than your doctor, to leave during an examination. However, your co-operation would be appreciated in allowing this training to take place.
• You have a right to expect the reception desk to be staffed in surgery or clinic hours by at least one receptionist and for the receptionist to treat patients with friendliness and courtesy at all times.
• The practice operates a policy of 'zero tolerance' towards violent, abusive or threatening behaviour and any person behaving in this way can expect to be removed from the practice list.
• The reception staff are usually very busy. If you need to phone the surgery please keep your phone call brief and avoid calling during peak morning times for non-urgent matters.
• If you have had a hospital consultation, then enquiries regarding that consultation or resultant tests should be made directly to the hospital.
• You have a right to a consultation with the doctor or practice nurse with in a timeframe appropriate for your medical condition. Patients will be offered a consultation for urgent cases within 24 hours.
• A doctor's time is limited and he/she has many patients to see. It is your responsibility to be punctual and to remember that a consultation is for one person only. It is your responsibility to inform reception at the time of making your appointment if you are aware you will need a lengthy consultation.
• Where an appointment has been made, you are responsible for keeping it or giving adequate notice to the practice that your wish to cancel, in order that the time may be made available to someone else.
• If you have made an appointment to see the doctor, every effort will be made to keep to the appointment time. There will be occasions when you may have an additional wait, for example, when the doctor is called to away to deal with an emergency. You have the right to know why there has been a delay and to be given an estimate of the additional waiting time. During the course of any surgery there are some patients who need longer consultation because of the nature of their illness. Please remember this is when waiting to be seen and try to be understanding about unavoidable delays.
• You have a right to receive the most appropriate care available which will be given by suitably qualified staff at your surgery. This includes being referred to a specialist where necessary.
• You have a right to expect speedy referral to another doctor or health professional when deemed appropriate by your doctor. Urgent referral letters will be ready for dispatch within 24 hours. Non-urgent referral letters may take a little longer.
• Waiting lists to see specialists may be long. It is your responsibility to inform both the hospital and practice if you cannot keep or no longer need an appointment with a specialist.
• You have a right to receive an NHS prescription for regular medication you are taking when this medication is available on the NHS. Repeat prescriptions will be ready for collection in 48 hours. It is your responsibility to have prescriptions dispensed and to ensure that the instructions given by the doctor are followed and the whole course of medicine is taken. Please remember medicines are for the named patient. It is offence to obtain prescriptions on another persons name to avoid paying prescription charges and any person doing so is liable to prosecution.
• You have the right to make suggestions or complain about the care and the services we offer without jeopardising your care. The Practice Team should be the first point of contact for suggestions and complaints.
• You have the right to leave the practice list and register with another practice within the practice area. This process will be quick and easy.
• Good General Practice has been based on good doctor and patient relationships requiring trust and mutual respect. It is important that this state of affairs should continue. We believe this is basic to good patient care.

Patient Feedback

We encourage patients to give us feedback on their experiences at the practice.