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Zero Tolerance

NHS staff should be able to come to work without fear of violence, abuse or harassment from patients or their relatives.

We 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 the fact of the removal and the circumstances leading to it in the patient’s medical records. This means the patient will not be able to register or re-register in any of the surgeries within the Lawrence House Group.