Patient Record
Change of Telephone Number
It is important that we have your up-to-date telephone numbers in case we need to contact you urgently. Ideally we would like a home number and a mobile number. If you change your numbers, please ensure you notify reception.
Change of Address
If you change your address please notify us in writing - either through a letter or by filling in one of the practice forms available from reception. If you move outside the Practice area you will be asked to register with a doctor closer to your new home. Please refer to NHS Inform Helpline or website.
Change of Name
If you change your name we require evidence to prove that you do not intend to deceive or defraud another person. The following forms of official evidence will be accepted: marriage certificate; civil partnership certificate; deed poll; adoption papers; a statutory declaration and divorce certificate / dissolution certificate.
Change of details form
If you like you could print off our change of details form for any of the above and hand it in at the front desk (one form per person).
Third party access to medical records
In accordance with the Data Protection Act, the Practice requires your consent before we can give out any information regarding yourself to a third party. Please print and hand in the form below (once signed by the patient) at the front desk. We also have printed forms available.
Sharing Your Medical Record
Increasingly, patient medical data is shared e.g. between GP surgeries and District Nursing, in order to give clinicians access to the most up to date information when attending patients.
The systems we operate require that any sharing of medical information is consented to by patients beforehand. Patients must consent to sharing of the data held by a health provider out to other health providers and must also consent to which of the other providers can access their data.
e.g. it may be necessary to share data held in GP practices with district nurses but the local podiatry department would not need to see it to undertake their work. In this case, patients would allow the surgery to share their data, they would allow the district nurses to access it but they would not allow access by the podiatry department. In this way access to patient data is under patients' control and can be shared on a 'need to know' basis.
NHS DIGITAL DATA SHARING OPT OUT
We would like to reassure our patients that the proposed extraction of GP data by NHS Digital DOES NOT include any patients registered with this practice or in NHS Scotland. NHS Digital provide services in England so are not able to access any data held in Scotland. You are not required to opt out as your data is already safe.
We take patients confidentially extremely seriously and safeguards are in place to protect this, including when data is used for research.
Further information on how NHS Scotland handles your personal information is on the NHS Inform website:
Tell Us If You Are A Carer
Let us know at reception.