Privacy Statement
Duty of Candour
Complaints
In the first instance, if you feel you need to make a complaint about the medical practice, please write or email the practice manager.
Jenny.Garris1@nhs.scot
Practice Manager
Loch Ness East & Strathnairn Medical Practice,
Inverness
IV2 6YB
If feel your complaint has not been adequately resolved please contact.
Feedback Team Organisation
NHS Highland Address PO BOX 571 The Highlands Inverness Phone number 01463 705997 Email nhshighland.feedback@nhs.net
Practice Policies
Confidentiality & Medical Records
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.
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 General Data Protection Regulations, the Data Protection Act 1998 and Access to Health Records Act, patients may request to see their medical records. . No information will be released without the patient consent unless we are legally obliged to do so. Please see our full privacy statement below:
Riverside, Foyers and Cromarty Medical Practices' Privacy Statement
Violence Policy
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.
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