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Medical Records

 

Lancashire and South Cumbria has been chosen by NHS England to be a national pilot for the digitisation of Medical Records.  Scanning these paper based records and making them digital will enable better utilisation of space, creating more clinical space, staff areas, multi team space and video hubs, removing the need for some practices to build extensions. In addition it will also make your record more easily and speedily accessible to clinical staff within your practice.

 

Your complete GP medical record will be digital and stored in a secure cloud based clinical system (only accessible by your GP practice) with the paper based records being securely destroyed following BS EN 15713:2009 Secure destruction of confidential material.  Your GP will still be able to access your records easily within this system. The scanning and destruction of the paper records will follow strict data protection guidelines adhered to by the NHS. As with paper based records, digital records are stored for the durations specified in the Records Management Codes of Practice for Health and Social Care. For GP patient records, this states that they may be destroyed 10 years after the patient’s death if they are no longer needed.

If you wish to discuss the scheme, please inform the Practice direct either by

Letter or via e-mail 

 

Philip Jones

Bridgegate Medical Centre

Winchester Street

Barrow in Furness

Cumbria

LA130HJ

 

Email – Mbccg.a82009@nhs.net

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PLT - Thursday 19th November 2020

Bridgegate Medical Centre will be closed for GP and staff training from 1pm today and re-open tomorrow morning at 8am.


If you require urgent medical attention contact 111 the out of hours service.

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Important information please read

The advice for anyone in any setting is to follow these main guidelines.

  1. If you have been in contact with someone with coronavirus or have returned from an affected area identified by the Chief Medical Officer as high risk and you are feeling unwell with a cough, difficulty breathing or fever, stay at home and use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service or call NHS 111.

  2. Wash your hands more often than usual, for 20 seconds using soap and hot water, particularly after coughing, sneezing and blowing your nose, or after being in public areas where other people are doing so. Use hand sanitiser if that’s all you have access to.

  3. To reduce the spread of germs when you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue, or your sleeve (not your hands) if you don’t have a tissue, and throw the tissue away immediately. Then wash your hands or use a hand sanitising gel.

  4. Clean and disinfect regularly touched objects and surfaces using your regular cleaning products to reduce the risk of passing the infection on to other people.

At the current time and based on our understanding of what is known of COVID-19 and other similar respiratory viruses, it is likely that older people and those with chronic medical conditions may be vulnerable to severe disease. As more information emerges, recommendations may change.

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  Hepatitis B Vaccine

Hepatitis B Vaccine is no longer available free on the NHS.

It is available at the surgery and there will be a charge of £65 per dose.

                       

 

Latest News

 

BMC Newsletter

September 2013

 

The General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) 

 

GPES will be used to extract GP data each month, including date of birth, postcode, and gender, which will allow patients' GP data to be linked to their hospital data.  No free text will be extracted, only coded information about referrals, NHS prescriptions and other clinical data.  The technical specification of the extract can be found at:

  www.england.nhs.uk/caredata

If you have any objections with regard to sharing the above information please contact the surgery

 

There are patient leaflets available for your information.

 

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  • New doctors – we have a new doctorworking with us at present:  Dr Rachel Stafford.  She will be with us for 12 months and will be taking an active part in all aspects of the practice

 

  • Medical students – the practice is involved in undergraduate/postgraduate training and there will be Year 4 students in the practice from time to time, over the next 12 months

 

  • Flu campaign – Please contact the surgery during opening hours 

 

  • Electronic prescribing – we are currently working closely with the local pharmacies on this and so far is going very well.  More details will  be provided at a later date

 

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