Policies and Procedures
Your Data
Your GP Practice is committed to operating in a way that complies fully with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. We recognise that the personal data legitimately required in order to carry out our business must be collected, processed, stored and disposed of fairly, lawfully and with due regard to confidentiality. We fully respect your privacy.
If you have any questions about your data or how we deal with it please contact the practice and get in touch with us by clicking on the Contact Us links available on this website.
Freedom of Information
Information about the General Practioner’s and the practice required for disclosure under this act can be made available to the public. All requests for such information should be made to the practice manager.
Complaints
Patient Complaints Information Leaflet
Violence Policy
The NHS operate a zero tolerance policy with regard to violence and abuse and the practice has the right to remove violent patients from the list with immediate effect in order to safeguard practice staff, patients and other persons. Violence in this context includes actual or threatened physical violence or verbal abuse which leads to fear for a person’s safety. In this situation we will notify the patient in writing of their removal from the list and record in the patient’s medical records the fact of the removal and the circumstances leading to it.
Contact Us
Heilendi Practice
The Balfour, Foreland Road
Kirkwall, Orkney
KW15 1NZ
Email: ork.heilendi@nhs.scot
Telephone Numbers
Heilendi Practice tel: 01856 888270
Shapinsay Surgery tel: 01856 711284
Shapinsay Nurse Practitioners
Tel: 01856 711348 OR if urgent: 888000
North Ronaldsay Nurse Pracitioners
Tel: 01857 633226
Out of Hours tel: 111
Practice information
Heilendi Practice
Tel: 01856 888270
Shapinsay Surgery
Tel: 01856 711284
Shapinsay Nurse Practitioners
Tel: 01856 711348 OR if urgent: 888000
North Ronaldsay Nurse Pracitioners
Tel: 01857 633226
Out of Hours
Tel: 111