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As a practice, we fully respect your right as a patient to control your data. The links explain how we share data with other providers, including the Great North Care Record and NHS Digital for secondary use.

You have the right to opt-out at any time from data being shared.

Your data is used in broadly two different ways:

1. To provide you with care. This is called “Primary Use“
2. To allow for planning and research to be done. This is called “Secondary Use“

Both uses will only be made where it is considered secure and appropriate to use patient data.

Opting-out of data sharing is an option for all patients, however it is not without potential downsides. For Primary Use data, if you opt-out and need care in a local hospital, for example, it may be much harder for the staff to access important medical information about you needed to provide safe and effective care. For Secondary Use, the downsides are more indirect. If everyone in the country were to opt-out, it would make it much harder to ensure funding is used in the NHS to develop services where they are needed. It would also be harder to develop new treatments.

Any choice you make will not impact your individual care. Please click on the link to find out more and opt out if you wish to do so or you can call 0300 3035678.

https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/

The NHS Digital Privacy Notice on the GPDPR is available here https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/general-practice-data-for-planning-and-research/gp-privacy-notice

How to manage your sharing preferences using the NHS App

You can view or change your current preference at any time.

To view and change your preference in the NHS App:

1. Go to Your health
2. Select Choose if data from your health and care records is shared for planning and research.
3. Select Make your choice.
4. Review the information on the page, then select Start now.
5. View your preference, then select Change if you want to change it.
6. Update your choice, then select Submit.

You can also visit www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters.

Click on the link below to access patient opt out form.

https://www.oldwellsurgery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2017/04/type-1-opt-out-form-for-patients.docx

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (eg average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.

However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading.  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 average pay for GP’s working at Oldwell Medical Partnership in the last financial year was £70,395 before tax and national insurance.

This is for 1 full time GP and 3 part time GPs who were working at the practice for six months or more.

eConsult 

eConsult is an online consultation, however please do not use this form for Urgent or emergency requests.

Please note forms will not be read on Saturdays/Sundays or Bank Holidays.

All submitted forms will only be dealt with Monday-Friday during surgery hours.

 

Patient Access – Online Service

The surgery offer ordering a repeat prescriptions, and online access to summary information within patient records ie allergies/adverse reactions.

Please speak to reception staff to access this service

 

If you are aged between 70 and 79 you are eligible  for a free shingles vaccination, these vaccinations are available all year round, patients remain eligible for the vaccination up until their 80th birthday.

Please contact the practice on 0191 5002023 to book an appointment with one of the practice nurses.

Please do not be put off booking your cervical smear, these procedures are still going ahead despite Covid-19, telephone the practice on 0191 5002023 to book your appointment.