News & Announcements

Care.data/HSCIC – Confidential information from your medical records can be used by the NHS to improve the services offered to provide the best possible care for everyone. This information along with your postcode and NHS number but not your name, will start being extracted to a secure system where it can be linked with other health information. This allows those planning NHS services or carrying out medical research to use information from different parts of the NHS in a way which does not identify you. Your data may also be made available to organisations outside of the NHS, such as universities and commercial organisations. We have no choice but to allow the HSCIC to extract the information.  The Government has had a leaflet regarding this data upload delivered to every household in the UK.

You will be able to read more about this on the NHS England web site, which carries full details.  It can be found by clicking on this link: www.nhs.uk/caredata

You have a choice. If you are happy for your information to be used in this way you do not have to do anything. If you have any concerns or wish to prevent this from happening, please contact the surgery and ask for an Opt-Out Form. 

Alternatively please click here for an information leaflet and Opt-Out Form.

Summary Care Record – Your data has been uploaded to the SCR to enable other hospitals and healthcare providers to view your records.  You can find further information by clicking here.

Again you have a choice and can download an Opt-Out form for the Summary Care Record here.

Note that these are two different data uploads so you will need to complete both forms if you wish to opt out of both data uploads.  Please ask us if you wish for further information or clarification.

In line with Department of Health recommendations we are now giving Shingles vaccinations to patients who are aged 70 with some 78 or 79 year olds as a catch up programme.  To check if you are eligible just ask to at reception or a GP/nurse at your next appointment.

In line with Department of Health recommendations we are now giving the Rotavirus vaccinations to babies aged eight weeks.  Please ask for details at your babies first vaccination appointment or ask a nurse or GP for further details.

The Department of Health have launched a Whooping Cough Vaccination campain for pregnant women between the 28th and 38th week of pregnancy.  We are carrying out this vaccination programme for our patients.  Should you fall into this category, please contact reception, who will make you an appropriate appointment with our nurses.  You can have this vaccination at the same time as the flu vaccination.  Should you have any queries regarding the immunisation, please contact either your midwife or the surgery.

All GP Practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. 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 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 comparisons with any other practice.

The average pay for GPs working in The Border Practice in the last financial year was £60,482 before tax and National Insurance.  This is for 3 full time GPs and 3 part time GPs who worked at the practice for more than 6 months.

The Practice has had a Patient Participation Group for many years now and values the imput it receives.

Please click on the link below to read more about the group.

Patient Participation Group Information.  

To access the Patient Access system you will need a log in.  Once you have a log in you can book and cancel appointments, order repeat medication, see your medicaion, allergies, vaccinations and coded information from your medical record On-Line 24 hours a day.

You can request a log in by following this link:  https://patient.emisaccess.co.uk or asking the reception team to register you for Patient Access.  Once you are on the registration web site, click on the left-hand green ‘Register’ button to complete your registration.  It will take approximately one working day for the system to update with your new log-in to enable you to order medication.  It will allow you to book an appointment immediately.

Thank you.