This section is all about how your medical records are used by Norton Medical Centre and other NHS care providers. There is a lot of information about information sharing so please take the time to read it carefully before making any choices. Please be assured that you will still receive the same standard of care from all NHS organisations regardless of your preferences about how your medical information is used.
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SystmOne records | Summary Care Record | Public Health
Public Health England (PHE) co-ordinates several national syndromic surveillance systems for the early warning and monitoring of public health and seasonal outbreaks of diseases such as influenza, and to aid response to incidents where the health of the population is at risk e.g. industrial fires or radiation leaks.
The PHE Real-time Syndromic Surveillance team (ReSST) provide a health protection service by collecting, analysing and interpreting syndromic surveillance data on a daily basis to provide early warning of health protection issues. They use symptomatic indicators such as the recording of Read codes for 'wheezing' or 'diarrhoea.
The aim of this service is to transfer non-identifiable syndromic data in near real-time to the PHE ReSST, with the explicit consent of the GP practices.
This enables GP practices to provide anonymised data regarding practice morbidity related to communicable diseases and environmental issues. The data will be used by the PHE ReSST for the management of health protection and to raise alerts about the incident of disease or syndromes. Data will be collected and used for surveillance purposes only.
For more information, please visit the Health Protection Agency website.
Norton Medical Centre
Billingham Road
Norton
Stockton-on-Tees
TS20 2UZ
Tel: 01642 745350
Monday to Friday 8:00am - 6:00pm
Norton Medical Centre will be closed from 12:00 noon on Tuesday 1st October 2024 for Staff Training - Surgeries in Hartlepool and Stockton, including Norton Medical Centre, will be closed for Protected Learning Time (PIL) If you require routine healthcare, we will open as normal at 8.30am on Wednesday 2nd October 2024. For emergency healthcare, please contact 111 or 999 as appropriate.
Please keep these dates in mind when ordering your prescriptions as processing times may be affected
The practice is closed on Thursdays between 12 noon and 2:00pm for staff training.
We are occasionally closed for training sessions, please see separate notices in the surgery and on the website for specific dates.
Closure dates can be viewed with our Opening Hours Page along with opening times.
Please use our Online Consultation Service to contact us online for an appointment or for queries by using our eConsultation link
From Monday 27th November, our eConsultation service and telephone lines will both open from 8.30am.
Please note we close eConsultations when we have reached safe capacity.
When the practice is closed call 111 for medical help or visit Out of Hours
Call 999 for Health Emergencies
