The Rights of People Who Use the Drop in Centre

The Rights of People who use the Local Health Centre

Everyone has individual rights which must be respected at all times. When a person goes to a local health centre they can’t register without a permanent address – if they haven’t registered at the local health centre they can go to a centre clinic at an arranged time and date. But if it is an emergency they can go to A&E. just because they have to go to the centre clinic it doesn’t mean that their care at the health centre has stopped all together. They have to live near the health centre. So if they moved out of the area of the local health centre, but might want to stay with the doctor they are with, they might be taking up the doctor’s time by travelling.

If the relationship between you and the doctor/nurse is affected they can move you to another doctor, but only when the treatment has finished. This also applies to you if you want to move to another doctor. But if you are violent to the doctor you will be immediately removed from their list. You will have to go to a clinic in Swansea or somewhere near you – where there will be a policeman present.

If you have been seen in the doctors on your own you must be over 16. You don’t need to be with your parents. But if a child went to the doctor about her pregnancy she doesn’t have to be with her parents – and the doctor won’t tell her parents but will encourage her to tell them. She has the right to go there and say specifically that she doesn’t want to tell her parents.

Everyone has individual rights.

Everyone has the right to be treated as an individual. So they can go into a health centre and be able to be treated the same as everyone else.

Everyone has the right to access their information. You can go into the health centre and be able to read what the doctor/nurse has written about the consultation.

Everyone has the right to be cared for in a way that takes account of their choices. You could go into the health centre, the receptionist...