Chipping Campden Surgery
Practice Charter - Patient Leaflet
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Chipping Campden Surgery, Back
Ends, Chipping, Campden,
Gloucestershire, GL55 6AU
www.chippingcampdensurgery.co.uk
OPENING TIMES
Mon:
Tue:
Wed:
Thu:
Fri:
Sat:
Sun:
08:30 - 13:30
08:30 - 13:30
08:30 - 13:30
08:30 - 13:30
08:30 - 13:30
Closed
Closed
14:00 - 18.00
14:00 - 18.00
14:00 - 20.45
14:00 - 18.00
14:00 - 18.00
PRACTICE STAFF
Practice Manager
Amanda Goode
Admin Manager
Dispensary Manager
Teresa Newman
Jude Manley
Practice Nurses
Sally Aitken
Tracey Linney
Colette Nock
Charlie Wells
Staff nurse
Dispensers
Teresa Newman
Dawn Bradley
District Nurses
Heather Kennedy
Annette Logan
Angela Volpe
Secretary
Wendy Clarke
IT Administrator
Julie Jones
Bookkeeper
Sue Powell
Appointments & Prescriptions
01386 841894
Appointments – option 1
Prescriptions – option 2
Prescription orders will be taken between 10am – 12pm
and 2pm – 3pm
Receptionists
Janet Wells
Janet Watkinson
Faye Carter
Jan Baxter
Midwife
Anna Wilson
Results
01386 841894 – option 1
After 2pm please
Health Visitor
Bernadette Sullivan
TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Emergencies, Visits and Out of Hours
01386 841894
Chipping Campden Surgery
PRACTICE
CHARTER
Information for
Patients
General Practitioners
Dr G Bointon
Dr J Williams
Dr R Zamir
Dr C Haseler
Secretary enquiries
01386 841894 – option 3, then option 1
Business & Practice Manager Enquiries
01386 841894 – option 3, then option 2
Fax
01386 841919
Please take a copy
(Revised September 2013)
Patient’s Rights to
General Medical Services
 To be offered a health check on joining a doctor’s
list for the first time.
 To have appropriate drugs and medicine
prescribed.
 To be referred to a Consultant acceptable to them
when they and their GP thinks it is necessary, and
to be referred for a second opinion if they and
their GP think it is advisable.
 To have access to their health records, subject to
any limitations of the law, and to know that those
working for the NHS are under a legal duty to keep
those records confidential.
 To choose whether to take part in research or
medical student training.
 To receive a copy of their doctors practice leaflet,
setting out the services that he or she provides.
 To receive a full and prompt reply to any
complaints they make about the care they receive
at the Chipping Campden Surgery.
Chipping Campden Surgery
Philosophy:
Our aims are to offer the highest standard of health
care and advice to our patients, with the resources
available to us.
We have a team approach to patient care and
endeavour to monitor the service provided to patients,
to ensure that it meets current standards of excellence.
We are dedicated to ensuring that Practice staff and
Doctors are trained to the highest level and to provide
a stimulating and rewarding environment in which to
work.
Our Practice Charter
Patient’s Responsibilities
 You will be treated with courtesy and respect by all
Practice personnel.
 If you are unable to attend for an appointment
please let us know so that we can offer it to
someone else. If you are late for your
appointment you may be asked to rebook at
another time.
 A home visit should only be requested for
those who are unable to come to the surgery
because of serious illness or infirmity. Please
ring the surgery before 11am if at all possible.
 Please give dispensary 48 hours (2 working
days) between ordering and collecting repeat
prescriptions. Antibiotics cannot be ordered
through dispensary; a GP consultation is
required.
 An urgent appointment is for an urgent
medical problem.
 Blood test appointments and urine specimen
testing should only be requested after being
advised to do so by a Doctor/Consultant or
Nurse.
 We would ask you to be patient if the
Doctor/Nurse is running late. This is often due
to unforeseeable emergencies but please ask
for details of delays from the Receptionist.
 Make a separate appointment for each patient
that needs to be seen. This allows the Doctor
enough time to treat each patient with the
time that they deserve.
 Please treat all surgery staff, fellow patients,
carers and visitors politely and with respect.
Violence or verbal harassment will not be
tolerated or accepted, you may be asked to
register at another surgery if this behaviour
occurs.
 An urgent appointment or telephone consultation
with a Doctor will be available on the same day.
 A non-urgent appointment or telephone
consultation with a doctor will be offered within 48
hours (this may be longer if requesting a specific
doctor).
 Our standard is to see 80% of patients within 20
minutes of their appointment time. Delays will be
notified on the patient check-in screen when
booking in for your appointment. If you have
waited longer than this please speak to the
Receptionist.
 We aim to answer the telephone within ten rings.
 An appointment or telephone consultation with a
Practice Nurse will be available within three
working days.
 Requests for repeat prescriptions will be dealt with
within 48 working hours. This can be by requesting
medication in person, via the practice website or
by telephoning 01386 841894, option 2, between
10 am– 12pm or 2 – 3pm.
 All comments and suggestions about the service
are welcome. Please use the feedback form on the
practice website or speak to a member of staff.
 If you have a complaint please speak to any
member of staff. Your complaint will be dealt with
in a professional and efficient manner.
 We wish to make the Chipping Campden Surgery
as accessible as possible. If you have hearing, visual
or physical difficulties please let the receptionist
know so that we can enable you to fully use our
services.