All Polices

Chaperone Policy

Please ask at reception for a copy of our Chaperone Policy.

Infection Control

Infection prevention and control is an essential element of high quality care. Having effective prevention and control measures in place contributes to the safety of the environment for service users, care workers and others.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 and Code of Practice for Health and Adult Social Care on the Prevention and Control of Infections related Guidance requires all organisations which provide health and adult social care to have policies, procedures and protocols in place which minimise the risk of infection and sets out the key activities that should be undertaken to meet these requirements.

The Code of Practice is used by CQC to assess compliance with the registration requirements on cleanliness and infection prevention and control.

The employees at Swan Lane Medical Centre are committed to minimising the risk of infection and ensuring the safety of our patients by regularly reviewing the processes we have in place to ensure they remain appropriate and fit for purpose.

Swan Lane Medical Centre works alongside NHS Bolton CCG and our local Health Protection Services who are part of Public Health England (PHE) to ensure the highest level of communication and a consistent approach to prevent infection and control transmission.

IPC annual Statement Report

View our Infection Control Policy

GP Net Earnings

All GP Practices are required to declare the mean earnings (eg average) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.

The average pay for GPs working in Swan Lane Medical Centre in the last financial year 23/24 before tax and National Insurance was £106,708.

This is for 3 full time GPs, 1 part time GPs, and 0 locum GP who worked in the practice for more than 6 months.

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.

Enhanced Data Sharing Model (eDSM)

This is a facility specific to GP practices or healthcare organisations nationally who use the same clinical software (Systmone). Currently secondary care organisations such as Out of Hours Services, Community Services, Hospitals, Prisons, Palliative Care Services, District Nurses and Child Health Services use Systmone software.

There are however several GP Practices and other healthcare organisations nationally that do use Systmone.

The eDSM allows the Practice to share your patient record with any of the above type of organisations. This will ultimately help the Consultant or GP you will be seeing to more fully understand your medical conditions, etc. eDSM also allows information from any consultations you have with the above organisations to be electronically incorporated into your patient record here at the surgery.

This sharing out arrangement is enabled, unless you have opted out.  We have a few verified organisations set up to automatically receive your data such as Bolton GP Federation, who offer the out of hours GP appointments in Bolton.  If however an organisation unknown to us wishes to access your medical record, they will need to be verified.  This is done through a request being forwarded to your email account/mobile phone text message/Systmone online message.  A verification code will be received by yourselves for their use.  Without this code and ultimately your permission, they are unable to access your medical record.

To help with this process, please could you provide us with your up-to-date mobile phone number or email address, or sign up for a Systmone Online account.  If you would like to opt out of this data sharing model, please contact the Practice Manager.