Practice Area
The practice area has been altered with effect from September 2018. The new boundary is as follows – “Ferry Road, Newhaven Road, Pilrig Street, Leith Walk, Leith Street, Princes Street, Queensferry Street, Bell’s Brae, Dean Path, Orchard Brae and Crewe Road South”.
Training Practice
We are a GP training practice and host junior doctors in various stages of their training programme. This ranges from doctors in their second year after qualifying who are with us to experience working in General Practice, through to specialist trainees who are completing their GP training.
All are fully qualified doctors who are supervised and supported by the GP Partners. Patients may be asked participate in a video recording of their consultation for training and assessment purposes. Patient consent will always be sought before any recording. We also host 4th year medical students who sit in with the GPs to gain an understanding of working in Primary Care. Your help in allowing them to listen and learn is much appreciated.
Promoting Health
In addition to guidance offered by your doctor in routine consultations, we offer specific appointments with the Practice Nurse. These are directed at various areas of concern – Smoking, High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease, Diabetes and Asthma.
Disabled Access
The consulting rooms and public areas of the practice have been designed to allow disabled patients easy access to all facilities.
Parking
There is public metered parking on Eyre Crescent and Eyre Place. Please DO NOT park in the practice or residential parking spaces.
Access to Patient Records
In accordance with current Data Protection legislation, patients are entitled to request copies of their medical records. Requests should be made in writing to the Practice Manager.
Patient Confidentiality
All our staff have been trained to ensure that any information we hold about you remains confidential.
Non-NHS Services & Fees
The GPs are regularly requested to provide services which are not available on the NHS. Patients should note that a fee will apply when such services are requested. Fees range from £45 to £225.
Items which attract a fee include letters, certificates, firearm licenses, medical reports and examinations.
As a practice we are conscious that more patients are opting to be seen and treated privately due to the unfortunate length of waiting lists for routine NHS services. If your private treatment requires ongoing monitoring and you choose to have this carried out at the practice, please be aware that you will be charged for the phlebotomy time and the laboratory service costs.
Please ask at reception for advice on the fee charged for a specific service. Payment can be made by cash or card at reception or by bank transfer – please contact reception for details.
Primary Care Intelligence Service (PCIS)
PCIS has been developed to help Doctors, the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland and researchers to learn more from patient information held at GP practices. They will use it to help all NHS patients in Scotland.
Only summary data is provided and used to produce population-based health information and evidence based on primary care data. It does not contain patient-level data and does not compromise patient confidentiality. The data will help to improve the quality of care for all patients, plan services, develop new treatments, find out about side-effects and respond to major epidemics.
Protecting Personal Health Information
Data Protection regulations give you important rights over how personal information about you is used. We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only use information collected lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, the Common Law of Confidentiality, The General Data Protection Regulation and the NHS Codes of Confidentiality and Security. Everyone working in, or for the NHS must use personal information in a secure and confidential way. Our Privacy Notice for patients is available on request. Please contact reception on 556 8842.
DataLoch
NHS Lothian takes patient confidentiality extremely seriously and has a well-deserved reputation for robust governance processes. We would never act to compromise patient data.
Every day, medical research and innovation is carried out by researchers across the UK using data that has been recorded during a patient’s treatment and is processed to ensure their identities are not revealed. This practice, which analyses symptoms, treatments and outcomes has allowed great strides and advances to be made in developing lifesaving treatments in many specialties, including cardiac care and also COVID-19. Without this research, breakthrough treatments and vaccines would be impossible.
DataLoch’s purpose is to enable these data-driven health and social care innovations to improve the health and lives of the region’s population. These activities are entirely in the public interest. Patient data is not being sold to private organisations, nor is it leaving the control of the NHS.
Access to extracts of data are provided to NHS service managers and medical researchers, approved by the NHS Lothian’s Caldicott Guardian and under strict controls. The data has identifying information removed and sits in a secure IT environment.
Where is the data held by DataLoch? And how is it kept secure?
DataLoch currently holds data from NHS Lothian only. All personal health data remains securely within NHS Lothian, and identifiable data is not accessible to researchers.
DataLoch builds on the existing model set up as the Lothian Regional Safe Haven. In line with data protection legislation, DataLoch has a Data Protection Impact Assessment. This is being continually reviewed and updated as any changes are made to how DataLoch operates, and as additional data partners join.
There is a robust governance model in place. Any projects applying to work with DataLoch have a full review, including members of the public, to ensure strict criteria are met.
DataLoch have a Public Reference Group, open to new members, who help to guide and inform the team’s approach and processes.
What is the DataLoch project?
DataLoch is a collaboration between NHS Lothian and The University of Edinburgh. In future, Local Authorities and NHS health boards in South East Scotland will be invited to participate and that will help generate insights and innovation in health and social care.
DataLoch will
- bring together health and social care data for the region
- work with experts in health and social care to understand and improve this data
- provide safe access to de-identified data for academics, clinicians and innovators to help them solve the challenges that really matter.
Who can you contact if you have concerns, want further information, or wish to be involved further?
- Data Concerns NHS Lothian DPO – Loth.DPO@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
- You can find further information on the DataLoch website.
- If you are interested to join the DataLoch Public Reference Group please contact dataloch@ed.ac.uk