Our purpose is to provide outstanding quality of healthcare services and education, to improve the health and well being of our local community in a happy and friendly way
DISABLED ACCESS
The practice premises provides marked disabled parking, wheelchair access, a disabled patients' toilet and all patients' facilities are on the ground floor.
Patients at the Kearsley Medical Centre are among the first in the country to be offered an NHS Summary Care Record. The new system will mean that key information, initially consisting of allergies, current prescriptions and any previous bad reactions to medicines, will make up a 'Summary Care Record' for each patient.
Staff in key locations in the local area, for example in A&E at the Royal Bolton Hospital, will be able to access the Summary Care Record of the patient they are treating through a secure computer network to help them provide better, safer care. More information can be added to the Summary Care Record in the future but only after discussion and in agreement with each patient.
Over the next couple of years patient records across England will be held electronically in this way, and will be accessible within the NHS wherever and whenever the information is needed to provide better, safer health care for patients. Patients will have the choice of blocking access to all or part of their data, and will be able to view their records to check they are accurate. Staff will only be permitted to access information if they are involved in treating the patient, and there will be strict security measures.
For more information about the NHS Summary Care Record programme in Bolton please visit www.bolton.nhs.uk/carerecords.
