Vision Statement
Our Practice started life as a semi-rural village general practice over 50 years ago and over time has evolved into a General Practice that continues to look after thousands of patients in the village and surrounding areas. We have a close team of doctors, nurses and support staff working together to provide the best care we can in safe, evidence-based timely and convenient manner to our patients. We work with other Practices and a variety of Health Professionals in the NHS a number of who provide at the practice providing an enhanced level of care to our patients.
We Aim to:
- Provide a high standard of holistic Medical Care within available resources
- Provide patients with chronic diseases with excellent evidence-based care closer to home where possible in the spirit of the CCG’s Prescribing Engagement Programme and with our Year of Care Long Term Condition Programme
- Promote continuity of care so far as is possible
- Treat all patients, carers and staff with dignity, respect and honesty.
- Understand and be committed to our patients’ needs
- Be courteous, approachable, friendly and accommodating
- To be a patient-centred service through shared decision making and good communication
- Involve other professionals in the care of patients as appropriate
- To safeguard children and adults by adopting best practice and local guidelines and pathways
- Work with local practices where appropriate to improve the health our patients in our community
- Engage with the Commissioning of services where appropriate
- Encourage patients to maintain a healthy lifestyle and access screening services
- To encourage patients to join our Patient Participation Group
- Act with integrity and complete confidentiality
- Ensure safe and effective services and environment
- To maintain the motivation skills and spirit of our Practice team
- Through monitoring and auditing, continue to improve our healthcare services
- Maintain high quality of care through continuous learning and training
- To operate in the spirit of and in accordance with the legislation of diversity and equality
- To ensure effective and robust information governance systems
Mission Statement
“Chopwell Primary Healthcare Centre aims to provide patients with high-quality personal health care and to seek continuous improvement in the health status of the whole practice population. We aim to achieve this by developing and maintaining a cohesive team-based approach which is responsive to people’s needs and expectations and reflects, wherever possible, the latest advances in primary care.”