All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to delivery NHS services to patients at each practice.

The average pay for GPs working for 6 months or more in Kings Corner Surgery in the last financial year was £85,000 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 5 part-time GPs.

There is a contractual requirement to utilise the GP2GP facility for the transfer of patient records between practices, when a patient registers or de-registers.

It is very important that you are registered with a doctor at all times. If you leave your GP and register with a new GP, your medical records will be removed from your previous doctor and forwarded on to your new GP via NHS England. It can take several weeks for your paper records to reach your new surgery. With GP to GP record transfers, your electronic record is transferred to your new practice much sooner.

Dr McGlynn & Partners confirm that GP2GP transfers are already active and we send and receive patient records via this system.

April 2023 – March 2024

Purpose

This annual statement will be generated each year in April in accordance with the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance. The report will be published on the practice website and will include the following summary:

• Any infection transmission incidents and any action taken. These will be reported in accordance with our significant events procedure
• Details of any infection control audits undertaken, and actions undertaken
• Details of any control risk assessments undertaken
• Details of staff training
• Any review and update policies, procedures, and guidelines

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Lead

The lead for infection prevention and control at Kings Corner Surgery is Gill Mitchell (Practice Nurse).

The IPC lead is supported by Carly Morris (Operation Manager).

Infection transmission incidents (significant events)

In the past year there have been zero IPC related significant events. There have been zero complaints made regarding cleanliness or infection control.

Audits

1. An external IPC inspection was completed on 12th May 2023 with Vanessa Seeboruth, Frimley ICB IPC lead.

2. An audit on minor surgery was done. It is as follows:

• 7 minor surgery was performed. It was sent off for histology. There was no post minor surgery infection and histology result was benign.
• 82 invasive injections were given. No post injection infections were reported.
• 40 IUD were fitted. No post coil infections were reported.
• 6 implants were fitted and no post implant infections were reported.
• 11 implant removals were done and no infections were reported.

3. Room audits are carried out bi-annually by Nurse Nikki Sly. No major issues were noted.

• All bedside curtains have been changed this year to new curtains fit for purpose.

4. Hand washing audit is done bi-annually for all staff. This is carried out by nurse Gill Mitchell, and she watches all staff wash their hands. Hand washing guides are displayed above all sinks in the Practice.

• All staff washed their hands for the appropriate length of time showing all 12 steps.

5. Vaccine fridge audit was carried out by Nurse Gill Mitchell. No major issues were noted.

• There were some days missing on vaccine fridge temperature check. The nursing team need to try and make sure this is done daily. Although there is an internal thermometer to help bridge the gap on any missing data.

The inadequacies that were noted are being addressed to ensure compliance. We aim to do more to share information with our patients and will therefore publish this Annual Statement on our practice website.

Needle stick injuries

No needle stick injuries have been reported this year.

Practice Cleaning

Kings Corner Surgery employs a cleaning company. Audits are carried out by the manager of this company to ensure standard of cleanliness and hygiene is maintained and if we have any concerns, we log this in our cleaner’s logbook.

The company name is Smarter Services Ltd.

There has been no feedback from any patients indicating any problems with the cleaning within the practice.

Staff Training

All staff undertake the appropriate level of Infection Prevention control training at induction and annually thereafter. Training records are recorded with the Operation Manager.

Practice maintenance

This year the practice has removed all carpets from clinical/patient spaces and now have laminate/clinical flooring.

Taps in clinical rooms have all been changed to combined taps with elbow adapter to comply with correct hand washing techniques.

Toys, Books and Magazines

Toys, books, and magazines have not been available in the waiting room for some time now. They will not be returning.

Policies, procedures and guidelines

Any policies and procedures relating to infection, Prevention Control are reviewed and updated annually. However, any new legislation or guidance that comes into action before a review date this will be added, and the review date will be changed accordingly.

Responsibility

It is the responsibility of all staff members at Kings Corner Surgery to be familiar with this statement and their roles and responsibilities under it.

Review

The IPC lead (Gill Mitchell) and Operation Manager (Carly Morris) are responsible for reviewing and producing the annual statement. This annual statement will be updated on or before April 2025.

Practices are required to promote and offer the facility for patients to view online, export or print any summary of information from their records relating to medications, allergies, adverse reactions and any other items/date such as ‘additional’ record elements which has been agreed between the contractor and the patient. We currently offer the facility for Patient access to their GP record online.

Your information, what you need to know

This privacy notice explains why we collect information about you, how that information will be used, how we keep it safe and confidential and what your rights are in relation to this.

Why we collect information about you

Health care professionals who provide you with care are required by law to maintain records about your health and any treatment or care you have received. These records help to provide you with the best possible healthcare and help us to protect your safety.

We collect and hold data for the purpose of providing healthcare services to our patients and running our organisation which includes monitoring the quality of care that we provide. In carrying out this role we will collect information about you which helps us respond to your queries or secure specialist services. We will keep your information in written form and/or in digital form.

Our Commitment to Data Privacy and Confidentiality Issues

As a GP practice, all of our GPs, staff and associated practitioners are committed to protecting your privacy and will only process data in accordance with the Data Protection Legislation. This includes the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) now known as the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018, the Law Enforcement Directive (Directive (EU) 2016/680) (LED) and any applicable national Laws implementing them as amended from time to time. The legislation requires us to process personal data only if there is a legitimate basis for doing so and that any processing must be fair and lawful.

In addition, consideration will also be given to all applicable Law concerning privacy, confidentiality, the processing and sharing of personal data including the Human Rights Act 1998, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 as amended by the Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015, the common law duty of confidentiality and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations.

Please view our detailed Privacy Policies here:

Kings Corner Surgery – Privacy Policy
Kings Corner Surgery – Privacy Notice – Appendix A