The practice has provided excellent health care to the West Wight for over 30 years and things have changed quite a bit during that time.
You can find us at Brookside Health Centre, Queens Road, Freshwater PO40 9DT.
The practice has provided excellent health care to the West Wight for over 30 years and things have changed quite a bit during that time.
You can find us at Brookside Health Centre, Queens Road, Freshwater PO40 9DT.
Mission Statement
Our aim is to provide the highest quality medical care and treatment in a friendly and comfortable environment.
We provide general medical services for patients registered with our Practice and immediate and necessary healthcare support for any person not registered with us who have an urgent medical need while temporarily living within our practice area. Weekday evening and Saturday morning appointments, booked in advance, are available for those who are unable to attend during normal surgery hours. These appointments may be over the telephone or via video link and may not be based at Brookside Health Centre.
Operating mainly from the Health Centre, we have a large number of Health Care Professionals, including:
GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a Nurse Consultant, a Practice Pharmacist, Paramedics, a Dietician, a Mental Health Practitioner, a GP Assistant, Care Coordinators, Health and Wellbeing Coaches, Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, a Musculoskeletal Practitioner, and a Social Prescriber.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) are the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.
The CQC make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage them to improve.
They monitor, inspect and regulate services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and publish what is found, including performance ratings to help people choose care.
The public access Brookside Health Centre is via our main entrance which is adjacent to the public car park at Moa place, Freshwater. There is no public access or parking available via Queens Road. This is a private car park for the use of Doctors, Practice staff and emergency vehicles only.
At Brookside Health Centre there are disabled parking bays adjacent to the front door in the public pay and display car park at the front entrance to the Practice.
We comply with requirements for disabled access and we provide disabled toilet facilities.
If you need translation or interpreter support please ask our Patient Advisors for details.
Occasionally, we have students and trainees visiting the practice to gain experience in general practice. If you are at all unhappy for them to be in attendance during a consultation at the practice, please inform the Patient Advisors on arrival or as soon as you are made aware that there will be someone else in attendance.
Published March 2021
NHS England requires 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.
All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.
The average pay for GPs working in Brookside Health Centre in the last financial year was £58,327 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 2 full time GPs, 1 part time GP and 5 Locums who worked in the practice for more than six months.
PATIENT COMPLAINT
If you have a complaint or concern about the service you have received from the doctors or any of the personnel working in this practice, please let us know. We operate a Practice Complaints Procedure as part of the NHS complaints system, which meets national criteria.
HOW TO COMPLAIN
We hope that we can sort most problems out easily and quickly, often at the time they arise and with the person concerned. If you wish to make a formal complaint, please do so AS SOON AS POSSIBLE – ideally within a matter of a few days. This will enable us to establish what happened more easily.
You should address your complaint: –
This will ensure that we deal with your concerns promptly and in the correct way.
COMPLAINING ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE
We keep strictly to the rules of medical confidentiality. If you are not the patient, but are complaining on their behalf, you must have their permission to do so. An authority signed by the person concerned will be needed unless they are incapable (because of illness or infirmity) of providing this.
WHAT WILL WE DO
We will acknowledge your complaint and aim to carry out a full investigation as soon as possible. If we expect our investigation to take some time we will explain the reason for the delay and tell you when we expect to finish.
When we look into your complaint, we will: –
TAKING IT FURTHER
We hope that, if you have a problem, you will use our practice complaints procedure. We believe that this will give us the best change of putting right whatever has gone wrong and the opportunity to improve our practice.
However, if you feel you cannot raise your complaint with us or you are dissatisfied with the way we are dealing with your complaint, you may refer the matter to:
By Post:
South East Complaints Hub
NHS Frimley ICB
Aldershot Centre for Health
Hospital Hill
Aldershot
Hampshire
GU11 1AY
Electronically:
frimleyicb.southeastcomplaints@nhs.net
By Telephone:
0300 561 0290
Do you have a complaint about NHS treatment you, or someone you know has received?
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Using the NHS Complaints Procedure, SWAN can help you complain about:
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