🩺 Your Right to Choose & Shared Care
At The Bailey Practice we’re committed to providing safe, high-quality care within our clinical responsibilities as your GP (General Practice) team.
✅ Your Right to Choose – What We Support
Under NHS guidelines, you have the legal right to choose which NHS provider you are referred to for specialist care, such as mental health or ADHD services.
We fully support this – if you ask, we will refer you to an appropriate NHS provider of your choice.
Please note:
If the specialist you choose through Right to Choose recommends certain medications or treatment, they must remain responsible for:
- All necessary tests and investigations
- Starting and monitoring any treatment
- Ongoing care related to specialist medication
We won’t take over these parts of your care, but we will continue to support you in accessing the help you need.
❌ We Are Not Accepting New Shared Care Agreements
What is a Shared Care Agreement?
It’s a formal arrangement between you, your specialist, and your GP where the GP agrees to take over prescribing and monitoring of specialist medications after your condition becomes stable.
These often include high-risk medications for:
- ADHD
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)
Due to increasing complexity and capacity limits, we are not able to take on any new shared care agreements.
This means we cannot:
- Prescribe specialist medications
- Do the monitoring required for those treatments
- Take clinical responsibility for specialist treatments
In these cases, your specialist team will continue to manage your treatment directly.
🔍 Have Questions?
If you’re unsure or want to talk more about shared care or Right to Choose referrals, please speak with a member of our clinical team.
We’re here to help you access safe and appropriate care that fits within our practice's capabilities.