Keeping you informed
The Sonning Common Health Centre has always been known for its aim to provide the best, most up-to-date service for its patients. An important part of that provision is information, both about the Health Centre and about relevant medical matters. We have various ways of trying to help our patients to stay well informed: We produce a 12-page colour brochure (available on request from Reception) which contains the most important information that our patients need about the Health Centre and its services. In the Reception lobby we have a changing display of leaflets available free to patients visiting the Health Centre In the waiting room there is a small collection of tapes and videos which cover a range of subjects. These may be borrowed by patients for up to three weeks at a time. You are asked to inform Reception of your name and the item(s) you wish to borrow. To see what items we have at present, click here. Please let us know if there are additions you would wish us to make, subject always of course to budgetary considerations. We publish a quarterly newsletter for our patients. It is designed to tell them more about the services we offer, Health Centre staff, some of the latest health issues, community services and other topics that we feel may be of interest. The Newsletter is available at the Reception desk and in the waiting room. We ask for a small donation towards our printing costs. Patients' Records and Confidentiality All our patients' records are held under strict rules of confidentiality on our computer and/or in written form. You have a personal right of access to your records and, with your agreement, relatives, friends and carers can be kept up to date with the progress of your treatment. We are sometimes involved in research projects which have been approved by the Local Research Ethics Committee. If anything to do with the research would involve you personally, you would be contacted to see if you were willing to participate. If you have any concerns about confidentiality, please speak to your doctor or to the Practice Manager, Glen Higgins. One of the most significant means of communication in the near future if not quite the present, as you have already discovered, is the Internet. We felt it was time we took advantage of what a website could offer, both in giving you useful information about our Health Centre and, at the same time, acting as a signpost and gateway to the mass of further information available on other sites on the Web. We have our own plans for the continuing development and improvement of our site but we do ask for your feedback - about what is there and what is not there, about what you like and dislike Just send us an e-mail - and thank you in advance for reading so far.
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