It’s Your Practice: A patient guide to GP services has been put together by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) for patients.
This guide has been produced as part of the RCGP’s aim to build stronger relationships between you and your doctors and encourage the involvement and inclusion of you in your own care.
The guide provides helpful information on all aspects of using GP services: from finding and choosing a practice and how to get the most out of a GP consultation to accessing health records and understanding patients’ rights and responsibilities.
It is split into several sections including:
- General Practice explained
- Choosing the right practice for you
- Registering with a GP practice
- Seeing your GP – consultations
- Seeing your GP – the next steps
- After your GP consultation
- Your health record
- Your rights and responsibilities as a patient
- Get involved with your practice
The publication is part of a push by the NHS as a whole to encourage you to understand how you can get the most out of primary care – which also includes how you can become more involved in monitoring your own health.
Download A Patient Guide to GP Services
Services available under contract:
Services required for the management of the contract are patients who are, or believe themselves to be:- a. Ill with conditions from which recovery is generally expected; b. Terminally ill; or c. Suffering from chronic disease (ii) Appropriate ongoing treatment and care to all registered patients and temporary residents taking account of their specific needs (this includes providing primary medical services require din core hours for the immediately necessary treatment of persons to whom the contractor has been required to provide treatment owing to an accident or emergency at any place in its practice area) (iii) Services required in core hours for the immediately necessary treatment of any of the following persons who request such treatment.
Core Hours: means the period beginning at 8 00am and ending at 6 30pm on any day from Monday to Friday except Good Friday, Christmas Day or bank holidays.
Out of Hour (OOH) Services: being those essential services that a contractor provides its registered patients during core hours. OOH Period: means: - 6pm to 8am Monday to Thursday; and - 6pm on a Friday to 8 am the following Monday; and - Good Friday, Christmas Day and bank Holidays.
Additional services: this is defined as one or more of the following: (i) cervical screening services; (ii) contraceptive services; (iii) childhood vaccines and immunisations; (iv) vaccines and immunisations; (v) child health surveillance services; (vi) maternity medical services; and (vii) minor surgery;
We also provide below services in Practice:
ECG
Spirometry
24 Hours BP
NHS Health Checks
Over 75 Year old Health Checks
Bloods
Wound Care
Mental Health Checks
Learning Disabilities Health Checks
Diabetes 9 Care Process (BP/Bloods-HbA1c/Cholesterol, Weight, BMI, Smoking, Foot Checks (Low risk only in house refer to Podiatry for Medium and High Risk)/Retinal checks(Refer patients to this service), Microalbuminuria testing (Urine).
Long Term Conditions checks etc.