Non-NHS Fees

Services outside the scope of the NHS will be charged according to a list of recommended fees. There is a list in reception. Non-NHS services include HGV, PSV, insurance company reports and medicals, private certificates, holiday cancellation, medical insurance reports/forms, pre-employment medicals, vaccination certificates etc.

This list is not exhaustive. Please enquire at reception if you are not sure of the cost, when handing in your form for completion.

Please note we do not undertake sports medicals or sign gun licences.

GP Training

This practice is closed on the second Tuesday of each month from 12.30pm to allow training for doctors, nurses and clerical staff. At such times the surgery may be closed for a half day and will only be open for emergencies in the morning. There may also be times when students or trainees are present with the doctors/nurses in the surgery. Occasionally the consultations are video-recorded for training purposes. Should this be the case, when you attend for your appointment you will be asked to give your permission for the recording to be made or the student/trainee to be present. Please feel quite free to refuse if you wish.

Burnham-On-Sea Community Hospital

The doctors are members of the medical staff at Burnham War Memorial Hospital, Burnham-on-Sea with the use of 24 GP beds available and provide an on-call casualty rota with other local doctors.

Patient Confidentiality

In order to maintain confidentiality, details of consultations and hospital or laboratory results will only be given to patients themselves or to parents/guardians of minor who are unable to give informed consent. If you would like to give ongoing permission for someone to act on your behalf, then please discuss with our records clerk who will give you a copy of our consent form to complete. This will then be recorded permanently on the computer. This form may be accessed via this website by following this hyperlink. You can revoke this consent at any time, by letting us know in writing that this is what you want to happen. If you do not give your specific permission, then, to protect your confidentiality, we will be unable to give out results to anyone except yourself.

Data Protection Act 1998

Patients are entitled to see their medical records (with certain exceptions). To find out further information about how you can view your records, please request our Practice leaflet ‘Can I See My Medical Records?’ from the Surgery. For in-depth information, you may also access the Department of Health website at: www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm

Freedom Of Information - Publication Scheme

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 obliges the practice to produce a Publication Scheme. This is a guide to the 'classes' of information the practice intends to routinely make available. Copies of Burnham Medical Centre's Publication Scheme are displayed at the Practice or via the following hyperlink www.foi.nhs.uk.

To find out more information on Freedom of Information, visit www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Carer's Register

Click here to download our 'Carer's Register Application form'

Burnham Medical Centre has a register of people who are carers. We also register within our patient's medical records when a patient has a carer.

There are many advantages to having a carer's register. For instance, whilst their carer's details are an essential component of the patient's records, the fact that one of our patients is a carer is also an essential part of their records.

If you are a carer and wish this information to be included on your medical records, please complete a Carer's Register Application form, which is available for download via this website or on request form the Surgery.

Carer Support Worker

Burnham Medical Centre has a link carer support worker who is based at Highbridge Medical Centre. For help, information, advice or just a sympathetic chat on any aspect of being a carer, contact:

Rachel Edwards on 01278 793729

Or ask for an appointment to see Rachel on the above telephone number.