Village Voice October/November 2013 | Page 30

The Alresford Surgery Newsletter Station Road, Alresford, Hampshire, SO24 9JL Telephone No. 01962 732345 Fax: 01962 736034 Web site – www.alresfordsurgery.co.uk For general advice or reassurance NHS Direct 0845 46 47 OUT OF HOURS 0300 300 2012 Your Medical Records – Important Information Shared Care Record – You will soon receive a letter about this NHS scheme which is intended to improve care if you need to go to hospital urgently. It allows NHS professionals to access limited information from your GP record, providing your permission is obtained. If you do not wish your information to be shared in this way you can opt out by following instructions in the letter. Health and Social Care Information Centre- Care Data - NHS England are proposing to extract data on healthcare from medical records held at the practice. This will include diagnoses, age, gender, prescriptions and other information and will be identified by NHS number. The information will be used to analyse patterns of health and healthcare with a view to improving services in the future. We are assured that patient information is secure but if you do not want your records to be included in this initiative please write to us by letter or email ([email protected]). More information is available at www.nhs.uk/caredata Reception and Dispensary Services Building work is now underway to refurbish the surgery. Part of this work will provide our dispensary and reception teams with entirely separate working areas, which means we are reviewing some of our processes and methods of working. ● All phone calls regarding queries X