THE SURGERY WILL BE CLOSED ON CHRISTMAS DAY AND BOXING DAY AND WILL REOPEN ON FRIDAY 27TH DECEMBERAT 8.30am. IF YOU HAVE A MEDICALLY URGENT PROBLEM PLEASE CALL NORTH & WEST URGENT CARE ON 02890 744447

PHARMACY FIRST

Many local pharmacies are now offering the pharmacy first service. this service allows you to have a consultation with a pharmacist for the following issues.

* The morning after pill MAP

 * treatment for urinary tract infections UTI

Please contact your local pharmacy to see if they offer this   service .

                      our telephone system

Our new telephone system allows patient's to press option 1 to leave a voicemail to order their repeat medications. This saves time holding to speak to a receptionist. Please note only repeat medications can be ordered this way, requests for anything else will not be dealt with. Repeat medication requests take 72 hours to process. 

The practice can be contacted via telephone weekdays between the hours of 8.30 am - 12pm & 2pm -6pm with the exception of a Wednesday afternoon when the practice switches to an ONCALL only position. If you are calling the practice between the hours of 12pm - 2pm or on a WEDNESDAY AFTEROON with a medical emergency that cannot wait listen carefully for the emergency line number which will enable you to contact the practice. (this number is subject to change so please do not save it)

.

                   WHEN WE ARE CLOSED

If you have a medical emergency after 6pm any weekday, over the weekend or on a Bank Holiday, please call North & West Urgent Care on 02890 744447

Privacy Notice

THE VERE FOSTER MEDICAL PRACTICE

Your information, privacy and the Law.

How we use your medical records

The use and sharing of personal information forms an essential part of the provision of health and care, benefiting individual patients, often necessary for the effective functioning of health and social services and sometimes necessary in the public interest. Nevertheless your doctor has a strong legal and ethical duty to protect patient information and all information you share with your doctor is kept confidential.

This practice is committed to observing the laws on data protection and confidentiality concerning your medical records and all uses and sharing of your information.

We share information about you with health professionals who are involved in providing you with care and treatment. This is on a need to know basis and, normally, event by event.

Some of your health information (including your name, address, allergies and medications) is automatically copied to the Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record.

Some information about you is shared with national screening campaigns such as Flu and Diabetes eye screening.

Information about you in non-identifiable form is used to manage the NHS and make payments.

Information about you in non-identifiable form is used to check the quality of care provided by the NHS.

Information about you in non-identifiable form may be used for medical research. Where identifiable information may be required we will first seek you consent.

We will share information when the law requires us to do, for instance when we are inspected or reporting certain illnesses or safeguarding vulnerable people.

We use a third party group for postage. Postage is collected daily in sealed envelopes  and delivered for posting. We share no information with this group apart from your address details which are on any correspondence addressed to you. 

Please read our Practice Policies section for information on iGPR who process insurance reports.