Your Rights and Responsibilities

These are the local standards set within this practice for the benefit of our patients. It is our job to give you treatment and advice. Following discussion with you, you will receive the most appropriate care, given by suitably qualified people.

No care or treatment will be given without your informed consent. In the interest of your health it is important for you to understand all the information given to you. Please ask us questions if you are unsure of anything.

Our Responsibility To You

We are committed to giving you the best possible service.

  • Names: People involved in your care will give you their names and ensure that you know how to contact them.
  • Waiting Time: We run an appointment system in this practice. You will be given a time at which the doctor or nurse hopes to be able to see you.
  • Access: You will have access to a doctor rapidly in case of emergency. We will arrange a home visit as appropriate for those who are too ill or infirm to be brought to the surgery.
  • Telephone: We will try to answer the phone promptly and to ensure that there are sufficient staff available to do this. You should be able to speak to a doctor by telephone.
  • Test Results: If you have undergone tests or x-rays ordered by the practice, we recommend you ring up for the results within 1 to 2 weeks for blood/urine test results, and 2 to 3 weeks for ultrasound/x-ray results. The receptionist will advise you if the results are in and what action is required.
  • Respect: Patients will be treated as individuals and partners in their healthcare, irrespective of their ethnic origin or religious and cultural beliefs.
  • Information: We will give you full information about the services we offer. Every effort will be made to ensure that you receive the information which directly affects your health and the care being offered.
  • Health Promotion: The practice will offer patients advice and information on: Steps they can take to promote good health and avoid illness. Self-help which can be undertaken without reference to a doctor in the case of minor ailments.
  • Health Records: You have the right to see your health records, subject to limitations in the law. These will be kept confidential at all times.

Your Responsibility To Us

Help us to help you.

  • Please let us know if you change your name, address or telephone number. If you need to let us know a change to your personal information, please use our Change of Personal Details Triage.
  • Please do everything you can to keep appointments. Tell us as soon as possible if you cannot y using our Cancel An Appointment Triage. Otherwise, other patients may have to wait longer.
  • We need help too. Please ask for home visits by the doctor only when the person is too ill to visit the surgery.
  • Test results take time to reach us, so please do not ring before you have been asked to do so.
  • Enquiries about tests ordered by the hospital should be directed to the hospital, not the practice.
  • We ask that you treat the doctors and practice staff with courtesy and respect.

Please read our practice booklet. Along with this website it will help you to get the best out of the services we offer. It is important that you understand the information given to you. Please ask us questions if you are unsure of anything.

Remember, you are responsible for your own health and the health of your children. We will give you our professional help and advice. Please act upon it.

Violent Patients

Our practice will not tolerate any violent, abusive or threatening behavior. If this should happen the patient will be removed from our list and Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group will be notified and will make arrangements for that patient to be seen at another practice.