General Medical services

General Medical Services

Your Doctor will try and find the best way of making you better. This may not involve giving you medicine or tablets, as there are other ways to treat you, so please do not expect a prescription on every visit. You may require advice on how to prevent illnesses in the future.

The surgery provides minor surgery, but if you need specialist advice or treatment, you will be referred to the hospital. Patients with minor injuries should attend Casualty.

The caring key question had the most positive feedback and fewest concerns, whereas most concerns fell under the safe key question. Our main areas of concern related to:

• safe and effective prescribing
• awareness of safeguarding and establishing patients’ identity, particularly for children and their parents or legal guardians
• arrangements for clinical oversight, governance frameworks and quality monitoring and improvement
• recording details and managing patients’ care records
• gaining appropriate consent
• sharing information with a patient’s NHS GP or other health professionals in accordance with guidance from the General Medical Council (GMC)

• • Consultation chambers where patients are provided medical, surgical or allied(physiotherapy, dietetics) consultation and expert opinion.
  • Examination rooms where patients can be examined for any disease condition.
  • Diagnostics which have radiology, pathology, microbiology and other diagnostic services and/or sample collection points
  • Pharmacy which provides medications to the patients.It is the section of the hospital where patients are provided medical consultations and other allied services. It has following parts and services Other services can be part of it on need basis.