Parkview Medical Centre

Minuteful Kidney service for patients with diabetes (and/or other conditions)

The data is being processed for the purpose of delivery of a programme sponsored by NHS Digital to monitor urine for indications of chronic kidney disease (CKD) which is recommended to be undertaken annually for patients at risk of chronic kidney disease eg patients living with diabetes. The programme enables patients to test their kidney function from home. We will share your contact details with Healthy.io to enable them to contact you and send you a test kit. This will help identify patients at risk of kidney disease and help us agree any early interventions that can be put in place for the benefit of your care. Healthy.io will only use your data for the purposes of delivering their service to you. If you do not wish to receive a home test kit from Healthy.io we will continue to manage your care within the practice. Healthy.io are required to hold data we send them in line with retention periods outlined in the Records Management code of Practice for Health and Social Care. Further information about this is available at: https://lp.healthy.io/minuteful info/.

The NHS in London is very busy due to the rising coronavirus infection rates, but we’ll help you get urgent care when you need it.

Please call our reception team if you wish for a same day telephone consultation at 8am for the mornings or 2:30pm for the afternoons, apart from Thursday when we only have morning GP sessions.

You can also contact 111. day or night, for other urgent health advice – including if you have concerns about your Covid-19 symptoms.

Please remember that 999 and A&E are for emergencies.

Thank you to Londoners for following the Tier 4 rules, which will help reduce infections, protect the NHS and keep each other safe.

The first phase of the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme has started. When it is the right time you will receive an invitation to come forward. For most people this will be a letter, either from your GP or the national NHS. This letter will include all the information you will need to book appointments, including your NHS number. Please do not contact the NHS to get an appointment until you get this letter. Information on the vaccine is available here: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine/

Please be advised the surgery is open as normal Today (22/12/20), Wednesday (23/12/20)

and on Thursday (24/12/20) Christmas Eve the surgery’s phone lines will go off at 12:30pm and there are no afternoon GP appointments on this day.

If you need to be seen by a GP after these days the GP hub is still offering appointments.

The surgery will reopen on Tuesday 29th December at 8am.

Please keep safe and have a nice Christmas from everyone at Parkview Medical Centre.

Due to the current pandemic our receptionists can still only book telephone appointments with the GP.

If the GP feels you need to come into the surgery to see them face to face they will book an appointment for you. Or they may offer you a video consultation.

Our receptionists cannot book face to face appointments with the GP, only the GP can do this at this time. Every patient will be offered a telephone consultation by reception.

If you are calling for an appointment our phone lines are now on at 8am for morning appointments or 2:30pm for afternoon appointments. And these appointments are on the day.

Please be patient with our phone lines, due to the pandemic a lot of our patients are contacting us by phone when they would normally come into us.

Please do not come to the surgery unless you have a prebooked face to face appointment.

If you have a face to face appointment book please DO NOT attend this appointment if you have a high temperature, dry cough or any other flu/covid like symptoms.

If you are experiencing any covid like symptoms please stay at home and get tested as soon as possible. If you need to get a test please visit the government website https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test or call 119.   

You can also contact us by email; Parkview.dagenham@nhs.net

If you need a sick note, please request this in writing. You can do this by hand (please place this in the box outside the surgery door), by email (Parkview.dagenham@nhs.net) or by econsult which you can find on the home page.

At the moment due to covid we would advise you email or do fill in an econsult for your requests, rather than coming to the surgery.

If you need to self certify you can download the self certify fit note on the government website;  https://bit.ly/govemployerguidance

If evidence is required to cover self-isolation or household isolation beyond the first 7 days of absence then employees can get an isolation note from NHS111 online: 111.nhs.uk/isolation-note/

For more information on the NHS Flu and Covid vaccination programmes please visit; https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/privacy-notice/national-flu-vaccination-programme/

Please note that people in the 50-64 year old age group will not be vaccinated until November and December, providing there is sufficient vaccine, and no appointments will be offered for this age group until then. This is to ensure that those who are most at risk are vaccinated first. If you are 50-64 and you are in one of the other groups which is eligible for the flu vaccination, for example you have a health condition which puts you at risk from the flu, you will be invited earlier.

This Year we are holding our flu clinics by appointment only. And they will take place in the car park behind the surgery. If you have an appointment booked, you must make your way to the back car park by the alley to the right of the building. You do not need to enter the surgery. For more information or to book your appointment please call reception.

Please note that people in the 50-64 year old age group will not be vaccinated until November and December, providing there is sufficient vaccine, and no appointments will be offered for this age group until then. This is to ensure that those who are at risk are vaccinated first. If you are 50-64 and you are in one of the other groups which is eligible for the flu vaccination, for example you have a health condition which puts you at risk from the flu, you will be invited earlier.

General Practice Transparency Notice for GPES Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (COVID-19) This practice is supporting vital coronavirus (COVID-19) planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital. The health and social care system is facing significant pressures due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Health and care information is essential to deliver care to individuals, to support health, social care and other public services and to protect public health. Information will also be vital in researching, monitoring, tracking and managing the coronavirus outbreak. In the current emergency it has become even more important to share health and care information across relevant organisations.

This practice is supporting vital coronavirus planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital, the national safe haven for health and social care data in England. Our legal basis for sharing data with NHS Digital NHS Digital has been legally directed to collect and analyse patient data from all GP practices in England to support the coronavirus response for the duration of the outbreak. NHS Digital will become the controller under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR) of the personal data collected and analysed jointly with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who has directed NHS Digital to collect and analyse this data under the COVID-19 Public Health Directions 2020 (COVID-19 Direction).

All GP practices in England are legally required to share data with NHS Digital for this purpose under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (2012 Act). More information about this requirement is contained in the data provision notice issued by NHS Digital to GP practices.

Under GDPR our legal basis for sharing this personal data with NHS Digital is Article 6(1)(c) – legal obligation. Our legal basis for sharing personal data relating to health, is Article 9(2)(g) – substantial public interest, for the purposes of NHS Digital exercising its statutory functions under the COVID-19 Direction. The type of personal data we are sharing with NHS Digital The data being shared with NHS Digital will include information about patients who are currently registered with a GP practice or who have a date of death on or after 1 November 2019 whose record contains coded information relevant to coronavirus planning and research.

The data contains NHS Number, postcode, address, surname, forename, sex, ethnicity, date of birth and date of death for those patients. It will also include coded health data which is held in your GP record such as details of:

•diagnoses and findings

•medications and other prescribed items

•investigations, tests and results

•treatments and outcomes

•vaccinations and immunisations

How NHS Digital will use and share your data NHS Digital will analyse the data they collect and securely and lawfully share data with other appropriate organisations, including health and care organisations, bodies engaged in disease surveillance and research organisations for coronavirus response purposes only. These purposes include protecting public health, planning and providing health, social care and public services, identifying coronavirus trends and risks to public health, monitoring and managing the outbreak and carrying out of vital coronavirus research and clinical trials.

The British Medical Association, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the National Data Guardian are all supportive of this initiative. NHS Digital has various legal powers to share data for purposes relating to the coronavirus response. It is also required to share data in certain circumstances set out in the COVID-19 Direction and to share confidential patient information to support the response under a legal notice issued to it by the Secretary of State under the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI Regulations).

Legal notices under the COPI Regulations have also been issued to other health and social care organisations requiring those organisations to process and share confidential patient information to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Any information used or shared during the outbreak under these legal notices or the COPI Regulations will be limited to the period of the outbreak unless there is another legal basis for organisations to continue to use the information.

Data which is shared by NHS Digital will be subject to robust rules relating to privacy, security and confidentiality and only the minimum amount of data necessary to achieve the coronavirus purpose will be shared. Organisations using your data will also need to have a clear legal basis to do so and will enter into a data sharing agreement with NHS Digital.

Information about the data that NHS Digital shares, including who with and for what purpose will be published in the NHS Digital data release register. For more information about how NHS Digital will use your data please see the NHS Digital Transparency Notice for GP Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (COVID-19).

National Data Opt-Out The application of the National Data Opt-Out to information shared by NHS Digital will be considered on a case by case basis and may or may not apply depending on the specific purposes for which the data is to be used.

This is because during this period of emergency, the National Data Opt-Out will not generally apply where data is used to support the coronavirus outbreak, due to the public interest and legal requirements to share information. Your rights over your personal data.