See below for:
Terms & Conditions of Oasis Medical Practice.
1. Oasis Medical Practice is a private clinic which charges a fee for its services. In accepting a consultation with a medical practitioner who may be a doctor, nurse or paramedic, you agree to pay for that practitioner’s time regardless of the outcome of the consultation. Any additional time, investigation or treatment is chargeable at additional cost. All fees must be settled before leaving the clinic. We reserve the right to charge for broken appointments. Deposits or full payment in advance are required for some types of appointment. These payments are non refundable.
2. Medical practitioners are responsible for their own clinical practice and for the advice, investigation and treatment that they provide.
3. Oasis Medical Practice is not liable for patients’ well-being outside of the clinic’s opening hours and does not provide an out of hours service.
4. All patient details and records are kept in the strictest of confidence by Oasis Medical Practice. We share information only with other medical service providers involved directly in your care such as the laboratory or imaging centre doing your tests; or specialists to whom you have requested referral. We use phone, fax and email to communicate with these other servcie providers and, while we aim to communicate confidentially, we accept no responsibility for breaches of these communication routes. We will not share your information with anyone else, unless you give us permission to do so, for example with your GP. The only exceptions where a patient is considered to be a danger to themselves or others, or when required to do so by a court order. In providing us with an email address or phone number we consider this implied premission to contact you by this means regarding your healthcare.
5. Oasis Medical Practice can only consult with the patient themselves or the parent or legal guardian of a child under 16. We cannot conduct a consultation about a relative or friend without their permission although we can give general health advice. The person must be in the UK at the time of the consultation or normally reside in the UK.
6. Patients have the right to access their health records in line with the Data Protection Act 1998.
7. Our staff have the right to work in an environment free from violent, threatening or abusive behaviour and everything will be done to protect that right. At no time will any violent, threatening or abusive behaviour be tolerated.
8. We reserve the right to refuse access to our service to certain individuals. Examples include those who behave violently, threateningly or abusively; patients who do not agree to pay for our services, requests for potentially addictive or controlled drugs: unethical requests such as assessing virginity or foetal scans for gender with a view to gender selective termination; patients who we are unable to assist such as those who need emergency or specialist treatment; those whose request we do not consider to be in their best interests; those who we consider to be a risk to themselves or others.
Terms and conditions for telephone and email consultations
As well as the general terms and conditions above:
1. Oasis Medical Practice is a private clinic which charges a fee for its services. In accepting a consultation with a medical practitioner who may be a doctor, nurse or paramedic, you agree to pay for that practitioner’s time regardless of the outcome of the consultation. Any additional time, investigation or treatment is chargeable at additional cost. The fee for a phone or email consultation is taken prior to commencement of the consultation.
2. There are limitations to remote consultations including prescribing, the doctor may advise you that you need to be examined. The fee is non refundable. If you attend a face to face consultation about the same problem immediately following a phone or email consultation, the fee for the face to face consultation may be discounted.
3. Oasis Medical Practice can only consult with the patient themselves or the parent or legal guardian of a child under 16. We cannot conduct a consultation about a relative or friend without their permission although we can give general health advice. The person must be in the UK at the time of the consultation or normally reside in the UK.
4. We reserve the right to refuse to conduct a telephone or email consultation or to terminate a consultation.
5. Phone consultations can normally be arranged during the Central London clinic opening hours. Email consultations are normally answered within 48 hours Monday to Friday, although they may be conducted at weekends subject to doctor’s availability.
6. The email consultation can represent up to 3 email exchanges. The telephone consultation is up to 15 minutes.
7. This service is not suitable for those who are acutely unwell and we advise those with acute illnesses to contact their GP or attend their local A+E department.
8. We cannot accept responsibility for non receipt of emails or unobtainable telephone numbers.
9. All patient details and records are kept in the strictest of confidence unless you give us permission to share information, for example with your GP. The only exceptions are where a patient is considered to be a danger to themselves or others, or when required to do so by a court order.
10. Medical practitioners are responsible for their own clinical practice and for the advice, investigation and treatment that they provide.
11. Oasis Medical Practice is not liable for patients’ well-being outside of the clinic’s opening hours and does not provide an out of hours service.
Terms and Conditions for online purchase of testing kits.
In ordering a test kit you agree to these terms and conditions.
1. Oasis Medical Practice provides kits for home sampling postal testing to those aged over 18 and currently in the UK.
2. It is a condition of the service that you purchase the test for yourself and not for another person.
3. Oasis Medical Practice cannot accept responsibility if the address or email address provided is incorrect or for postal delay or failure once dispatched from Oasis Medical Practice.
4. Your data will not be shared with any third parties. Oasis Medical Practice maintains strict confidentiality but cannot be responsible for items posted or emails once they have left our system. All patient details and records are kept in the strictest of confidence unless you give us permission to share information, for example with your GP. The only exceptions are where a patient is considered to be a danger to themselves or others, or when required to do so by a court order.
5. Testing kits for infections only detect the infection in the part of the body from which the specimen was taken. No test is 100% accurate but Oasis Medical Practice uses the most accurate tests currently available. Many infections have a ‘window period’ of time from contact to which the infection is detectable on testing. The window period appears in the information for each test. Testing kits only test for the infections specified for each kit. You may be at risk of other infections and it may be in your interests to also test for other additional infections.
6. Treatment is available for infections detected through our clinics at additional cost
7. You can request a refund up to 14 days after purchase for a testing kit provided you have not used the kit. Postage costs are not refundable
9. We reserve the right to refuse to supply a test kits.
10. This service is not suitable for those with symptoms of a sexual infection and we advise that you seek medical advice to avoid treatment delay.
11. We cannot accept responsibility for non receipt of emails, unobtainable telephone numbers or where the address provided is inaccurate.
Oasis Medical Practice Complaints policy
Promise to Patients:
Oasis Medical Practice is committed to delivering a high quality service and endeavours to provide you and your family with excellent personal and professional care whilst at the practice. However, there may be times when your expectations are not met and you are not satisfied with the service you have received.
Our complaints procedure ensures that we respond to your concerns considerately, quickly and as effectively as possible. All comments and complaints are taken seriously, regardless of their nature whether medical, nursing or administrative. This guide outlines our patient complaints procedure and gives you advice about how to make a complaint.
Verbal complaints – in person or by telephone.
Every effort will be made to resolve your complaint immediately. However, if your concerns are not resolved to your satisfaction you will be given a copy of this guide explaining how to make a written complaint and what to expect if you do.
Written complaints (by letter or email).
All written complaints should be addressed to the clinic lead of the clinic at which you were seen.
A complaint should be sent to:
Oasis Medical Practice
5A Market Street
Bury
BL9 0BL
info@oasismedicalpractice.com
Your letter should include:
The Clinic Lead will acknowledge receipt of your letter within 2 working days.
The Clinic Lead will review the complaint to determine in the first instance whether it refers to a problem with the service offered by Oasis Medical Practice or whether it relates to the medical management by one of our doctors or nurses, or both.
Complaints relating to the service offered by Oasis Medical Practice.
If the complaint relates to the service offered by Oasis Medical Practice then this will be investigated by the clinic lead and an initial response sent in fourteen working days. If further investigation is needed, then the patient will be kept informed of progress.
Complaints relating to medical management by an individual doctor or nurse.
In cases where the complaint refers to the management of a medical condition by a particular doctor or nurse, the complaint will be passed on to that doctor or nurse. He/she will then be responsible for responding to the patient’s complaint. They should acknowledge receipt of the complaint within 7 days. Most doctors and nurses will then consult their professional insurance company (usually the Medical Defence Union or the Medical Protection Society) before producing a full response and these organisations can be very slow to give advice, so this may take some time. In some cases these organisations may ask to contact the patient themselves. Oasis Medical Practice will endeavour to expedite this process throughout but is necessarily limited in its ability to influence the time taken by indemnity organisations, and we will do our best to keep the patient informed of progress. All correspondence will be copied to the Clinic Lead while ensuring that information is only shared with relevant persons within Oasis Medical Practice to ensure patient confidentiality.
Oasis Medical Practice only uses fully qualified doctors and nurses and offers additional training for medical services. Oasis Medical Practice has systems in place for the regular review and audit of our doctors and nurses. Oasis Medical Practice takes all complaints seriously and where a complaint is made against a doctor or nurse working for us, we will review their overall performance and recommend further training where indicated. We will also consider whether any lessons can be learned from the complaint to avoid the situation recurring and implement changes, such as recommending additional training to other doctors or nurses working for us, where necessary. Decisions about doctor or nurses’ on-going employment are made by the individual clinics. Any allegations against an individual doctor or nurse are the responsibility of that doctor or nurse and not the responsibility of Oasis Medical Practice.
Where the complaint also refers to the service offered by Oasis Medical Practice this will be addressed separately as above.
Other organisations involved in Good Medical Practice.
Any serious allegations about doctor’s fitness to practice should be directed to the General Medical Council at www.gmc.org-uk.
Some doctors who work solely in private practice are also members of the Independent Doctors Federation and will take complaints into account when conducting doctors’ appraisals. www.idf.uk.net