Practice Policies & Patient Information
GP Earnings
Publication of GP Net Earnings
All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay ) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.
The average pay for GPs working in Hill Top Surgery in the last financial year was £78,069 before tax and national insurance. This is for two full time GPs and one Locum GP who worked in the practice for more than six months.
Medication Review Policy
Please check on the medication list issued with your prescription or ask at reception when your medication review is due.
Your prescriptions will only be issued when your medication review has been done.
This may mean you will have to wait on occasions.
Opting out of NHS Digital Collecting Your Data
(Type 1 Opt-out)
If you do not want your identifiable patient data (personally identifiable data in the diagram above) to be shared outside of your GP practice for purposes except for your own care, you can register an opt-out with your GP practice. This is known as a Type 1 Opt-out.
Type 1 Opt-outs were introduced in 2013 for data sharing from GP practices, but may be discontinued in the future as a new opt-out has since been introduced to cover the broader health and care system, called the National Data Opt-out. If this happens people who have registered a Type 1 Opt-out will be informed. More about National Data Opt-outs is in the section Who we share patient data with.
NHS Digital will not collect any patient data for patients who have already registered a Type 1 Opt-out in line with current policy. If this changes patients who have registered a Type 1 Opt-out will be informed.
If you do not want your patient data shared with NHS Digital, you can register a Type 1 Opt-out with your GP practice. You can register a Type 1 Opt-out at any time. You can also change your mind at any time and withdraw a Type 1 Opt-out.
Data sharing with NHS Digital will start on 1 September 2021.
If you have already registered a Type 1 Opt-out with your GP practice your data will not be shared with NHS Digital.
If you wish to register a Type 1 Opt-out with your GP practice before data sharing starts with NHS Digital, this should be done by returning this form to your GP practice. If you have previously registered a Type 1 Opt-out and you would like to withdraw this, you can also use the form to do this. You can send the form by post or email to your GP practice or call 0300 3035678 for a form to be sent out to you.
If you register a Type 1 Opt-out after your patient data has already been shared with NHS Digital, no more of your data will be shared with NHS Digital. NHS Digital will however still hold the patient data which was shared with us before you registered the Type 1 Opt-out.
If you do not want NHS Digital to share your identifiable patient data (personally identifiable data in the diagram above) with anyone else for purposes beyond your own care, then you can also register a National Data Opt-out.
Violent & Aggressive Behaviour
The practice does not tolerate violent and aggressive behaviour towards ANY member of Staff or Patient and follows a zero tolerance policy.
Removal From Practice List
The practice reserves the right to exclude or remove a patient from the practice list if there is an irreparable breakdown in the doctor /patient relationship.