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 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

We make every effort to give the best service possible to everyone who attends our practice.

However, we are aware that things can go wrong resulting in a patient feeling that they have a genuine cause for complaint. If this is so, we would wish for the matter to be settled as quickly, and as amicably, as possible.

To pursue a complaint please contact the patient experience coordinator who will deal with your concerns appropriately. Further written information is available regarding the complaints procedure from reception.

View our Covid-19 Supplementary Privacy Notice

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Privacy Notice

To understand the data that we hold for you, and how this data is processed, please view here – Privacy Notice / Privacy Notice for Children

In order to ensure we maintain the highest standard of care possible during the Coronavirus Pandemic practices need to work slightly differently, and this means we may need to process data in different ways, whilst maintaining the highest possible standards that we always strive for. Please see the COVID-19 SUPPLEMENTARY PRIVACY NOTICE for further information.

How your information is shared so that this practice can meet legal requirements

The law requires Eric Moore Partnership Medical Practice to share information from your medical records in certain circumstances.

Information is shared so that the NHS or Public Health England can, for example:

• plan and manage services
• check that the care being provided is safe
• prevent infectious diseases from spreading

We will share information with NHS Digital, the Care Quality Commission and local health protection team (or Public Health England) when the law requires us to do so. Further information regarding this is below. We must also share your information if a court of law orders us to do so.

How the NHS and care services use your information

Eric Moore Partnership Medical Practice is one of many organisations working in the health and care system to improve care for patients and the public.

Whenever you use a health or care service, such as attending Accident & Emergency or using the Out of Hours GP service, important information about you is collected in a patient record for that service. Collecting this information helps to ensure you get the safest possible care and treatment.

The information collected about you when you use these services can also be used and provided to other organisations for purposes beyond your individual care, but this may only take place when there is a clear legal basis to use this information.

All these uses help to provide better health and care for you, your family and future generations. Confidential patient information about your health and care is only used like this where allowed by law.

Examples of this are below: 

• improving the quality and standards of care provided

• research into the development of new treatments

• preventing illness and diseases

• monitoring safety
• planning services

Most of the time, anonymised data is used for research and planning so that you cannot be identified in which case your confidential patient information isn’t needed.

You have a choice about whether you want your confidential patient information to be used in this way, and you do have the option to opt out. If you are happy with this use of information you do not need to do anything. If you do choose to opt out your confidential patient information will still be used to support your individual care.

To find out more or to register your choice to opt out, please visit www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters.

On this web page you will:

• See what is meant by confidential patient information

• Find examples of when confidential patient information is used for individual care and examples of when it is used for purposes beyond individual care

• Find out more about the benefits of sharing data

• Understand more about who uses the data

• Find out how your data is protected

• Be able to access the system to view, set or change your opt-out setting

• Find the contact telephone number if you want to know any more or to set/change your opt-out by phone
• See the situations where the opt-out will not apply

You can also find out more about how patient information is used at:

https://www.hra.nhs.uk/information-about-patients/ (which covers health and care research); and

https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/what-you-need-know (which covers how and why patient information is used, the safeguards and how decisions are made).

You can change your mind about your choice at any time.

Data being used or shared for purposes beyond individual care does not include your data being shared with insurance companies or used for marketing purposes and data would only be used in this way with your specific agreement.

Health and care organisations have until 2020 to put systems and processes in place so they can be compliant with the national data opt-out and apply your choice to any confidential patient information they use or share for purposes beyond your individual care. Our organisation is currently compliant with the national data opt-out policy.

NHS Digital

NHS Digital is a national body which has legal responsibilities to collect information about health and social care services.It collects information from across the NHS in England and provides reports on how the NHS is performing. These reports help to plan and improve services to patients.

This practice must comply with the law and will send data to NHS Digital, for example, when it is told to do so by the Secretary of State for Health or NHS England under the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

More information about NHS Digital and how it uses information can be found at https://digital.nhs.uk/home

NHS Digital sometimes shares names and addresses of patients suspected of committing immigration offences with the Home Office. More information on this can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-requests-from-the-home-office-to-nhs-digital

Care Quality Commission (CQC) The CQC regulates health and social care services to ensure that safe care is provided. The law says that we must report certain serious events to the CQC, for example, when patient safety has been put at risk.

For more information about the CQC see: http://www.cqc.org.uk/

Public Health We are legally required to share data for public health reasons, for example to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or other diseases which threaten the health of the population.

We will report the relevant information to local health protection team or Public Health England.

For more information about Public Health England and disease reporting see: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/notifiable-diseases-and-causative-organisms-how-to-report

We are required by law to provide you with the following information about how we handle your information and our legal obligations to share data.

• Purpose of the processing

• Compliance with legal obligations or court order.

• Lawful basis for processing 

Data Controller

Dr Alagu Rajkumar

Eric Moore Partnership Medical Practice

Medi Centre

Tanners Lane

Warrington

WA2 7NJ

Eric Moore Partnership Medical Practice is registered as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 (Registration № Z6900496). Our registration can be viewed on-line in the public register at www.ico.org.uk

Data Protection Officer

Malcolm Gandy – Head of Information Governance and Quality Assurance

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Alexandra Business Park

Court Building

Prescot Road

St Helens

WA10 3TP

The following sections of the GDPR mean that we can share information when the law tells us to:

Article 6(1)(c) – ‘processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject…’

Article 9(2)(h) – ‘processing is necessary for the purpose of preventative…medicine…the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services…’.

Recipient or categories of recipients of the processed data

• The data will be shared with NHS Digital
• The data will be shared with the Care Quality Commission
• The data will be shared with our local health protection team or Public Health England
• The data will be shared with the court if ordered.

Rights to object and the national data opt-out There are very limited rights to object when the law requires information to be shared but government policy allows some rights of objection as set out below.

NHS Digital

• You have the right to object to information being shared with NHS Digital for reasons other than your own direct care.
• This is called a ‘Type 1’ objection – you can ask your practice to apply this code to your record.
• Please note: The ‘Type 1’ objection, however, will no longer be available after 2020.
• This means you will not be able to object to your data being shared with NHS Digital when it is legally required under the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

The national data op-out model provides you with an easy way of opting-out of identifiable data being used for health service planning and research purposes, including when it is shared by NHS Digital for these reasons. To opt-out or to find out more about your opt-out choices please go to https://digital.nhs.uk/services/national-data-opt-out

NHS Digital sharing with the Home Office There is no right of objection to NHS Digital sharing names and addresses of patients who are suspected of having committed an immigration offence.

Public Health Legally information must be shared under public health legislation. This means that you are unable to object.

Care Quality Commission Legally information must be shared when the Care Quality Commission needs it for their regulatory functions. This means that you are unable to object.

Court Order

Your information must be shared if it ordered by a court. This means that you are unable to object.

Right to access and correct

You have the right to access your medical record and have any errors or mistakes corrected. Please speak to a member of staff or look at our ‘subject access request’ policy on the practice website.

We are not aware of any circumstances in which you will have the right to delete correct information from your medical record; although you are free to obtain your own legal advice if you believe there is no lawful purpose for which we hold the information and contact us if you hold a different view.

Retention period GP medical records will be kept in line with the law and national guidance. Information on how long records are kept can be found at https://digital.nhs.uk/article/1202/Records-Management-Code-of-Practice-for-Health-and-Social-Care-2016, or speak to the practice.

Right to complain

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. If you wish to complain follow this link https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ or call the helpline 0303 123 1113.

GP AVERAGE EARNINGS 2022-2023

NHS England require the net earnings of doctors engaged in the Practice is published, and the required disclosure is shown below.  However, it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because 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.

From April 2016 it has become a contractual requirement for all GP practices to publish the mean net earnings of the partners, salaried GPs and locums who have worked in the practice for over six months, on their Practice website.

The average pay for GPs working at Eric Moore Partnership Medical Practice in the last financial year 2022/23 was £80578 before tax and National insurance. This is for 4 full time and 3 part time doctors who worked at the practice for more than 6 months

View our Privacy Notice 

View our Privacy Notice for Children 

There is a new Central NHS Computer System called the Summary Care Record (SCR). It is an electronic record which contains information about the medicines you take, allergies you suffer from and any bad reactions to medicines you have had.

Why do I need a Summary Care Record?

Storing information in one place makes it easier for healthcare staff to treat you in an emergency, or when your GP practice is closed.

This information could make a difference to how a doctor decides to care for you, for example which medicines they choose to prescribe for you.

Who can see it?

Only healthcare staff involved in your care can see your Summary Care Record.

How do I know if I have one?

Over half of the population of England now have a Summary Care Record. You can find out whether Summary Care Records have come to your area by looking at our interactive map or by asking your GP.

Do I have to have one?

No, it is not compulsory. If you choose to opt out of the scheme, then you will need to complete a form and bring it along to the surgery. You can use the form at the foot of this page.

More Information

For further information visit the NHS Care records website.

Zero Tolerance

The Practice takes it very seriously if a member of staff or one of the doctors or nursing team is treated in an abusive or violent way.

The Practice supports the government’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ campaign for Health Service Staff. This states that GPs and their staff have a right to care for others without fear of being attacked or abused. To successfully provide these services a mutual respect between all the 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. They 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.

The staff understand that ill patients do not always act in a reasonable manner and will take this into consideration when trying to deal with a misunderstanding or complaint.

However, aggressive behaviour, be it violent or abusive, 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 their patients the practice would like to ask all its patients to read and take note of the occasional types of behaviour that would be found unacceptable:

• Using bad language or swearing at practice staff
• Any physical violence towards any member of the Primary Health Care Team or other patients, such as pushing or shoving
• Verbal abuse towards the staff in any form including verbally insulting the staff
• Racial abuse and sexual harassment will not be tolerated within this practice
• 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
• Causing damage/stealing from the Practice’s premises, staff or patients
• Obtaining drugs and/or medical services fraudulently

We ask you to treat your GPs and their staff courteously at all times.

Removal from the practice list

A good patient-doctor relationship, based on mutual respect and trust, is the cornerstone of good patient care. The removal of patients from our list is an exceptional and rare event and is a last resort in an impaired patient-practice relationship. When trust has irretrievably broken down, it is in the patient’s interest, just as much as that of the practice, that they should find a new practice.

An exception to this is on immediate removal on the grounds of violence e.g. when the Police are involved.

Removing other members of the household

In rare cases, however, because of the possible need to visit patients at home it may be necessary to terminate responsibility for other members of the family or the entire household. The prospect of visiting patients where a relative who is no longer a patient of the practice by virtue of their unacceptable behaviour resides, or being regularly confronted by the removed patient, may make it too difficult for the practice to continue to look after the whole family.

This is particularly likely where the patient has been removed because of violence or threatening behaviour and keeping the other family members could put doctors or their staff at risk.

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