Your Data Matters

Your Data Matters to the NHS

Information about your health and care helps us to improve your individual care, speed up diagnosis, plan your local services and research new treatments.

In May 2018, the strict rules about how this data can and cannot be used were strengthened. The NHS is committed to keeping patient information safe and always being clear about how it is used.

You can choose whether your confidential patient information is used for research and planning.

To find out more visit: nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters.

Violence Policy

The NHS operate a zero tolerance policy with regard to violence and abuse and the practice has the right to remove violent patients from the list with immediate effect in order to safeguard practice staff, patients and other persons. Violence in this context includes actual or threatened physical violence or verbal abuse which leads to fear for a person’s safety. In this situation we will notify the patient in writing of their removal from the list and record in the patient’s medical records the fact of the removal and the circumstances leading to it.

Comments & Complaints

Bodriggy Health Centre welcomes comments, compliments, concerns and complaints.   We always aim to provide the best care we can. However, we know that sometimes things can go wrong. When this happens we believe that it is often most effective to sort problems out quickly and informally. Please talk to any member of staff if you have a problem or concern.

Complaints Procedure Leaflet

Click on the links below to view the Practice Complaints Leaflet and to download a copy of the Complaint Form:-

Complaint Form

If you want to make a formal complaint, please contact the Practice Manager Eleanor McCallum (for administrative or general complaints) or Dr Will Hart (for clinical complaints). You can do this in writing, by email, by telephone or in person.  The contact details are:-

Eleanor McCallum (Practice Manager)
(General or Administrative Complaints)

Dr Will Hart (Clinical Complaints)
Bodriggy Health Centre
60 Queensway
Hayle
TR27 4PB

Tel. 01736 753136
Email. enquiries.bodriggy@nhs.net

Freedom of Information

Information about the General Practitioners and the practice required for disclosure under this act can be made available to the public. All requests for such information should be made to the practice manager.

Freedom of Information Act  Freedom of Information Act Leaflet 2025

GP Net Earnings

NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised, and the required disclosure is shown below.  However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.
The average pay for GPs working in Bodriggy Surgery in the last financial Period ended 31 March 2024 was £59,327 before tax and National Insurance.
This was for 0 full time GPs and 12 part time GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.

GDPR – General Data Protection Regulations

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulations and is a new piece of legislation that will supersede the Data Protection Act. It will not only apply to the UK and EU; it covers anywhere in the world in which data about EU citizens is processed.

The GDPR is similar to the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998 (which the practice already complies with), but strengthens many of the DPA’s principles. The main changes are:

Practices must comply with subject access requests

Where we need your consent to process data, this consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous

There are new, special protections for patient data

The Information Commissioner’s Office must be notified within 72 hours of a data breach

Higher fines for data breaches – up to 20 million euros

GDPR patient leaflet

Practice Fair Processing and Privacy Notice 2023 – updated DPO

Accessible Information Standard

From the 1st August 2016, we are required to ask people if they have any communication needs or a need to be given information in a certain way.

We are asking patients when they register with us, but if you are already registered and you require support with accessing information in a different format, please let us know.

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