🩺 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.

Important Reminder for Anyone on Oral Contraception or HRT taking or thinking of staring weight loss injection (obtained privately)

If you are using hormone replacement therapy tablets (HRT) or the Contraceptive Pill , and you’re thinking about or already using weight loss injections like semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) or tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound), there are a few important things you need to know.

The weight loss medications slow down stomach emptying (this is called delayed gastric emptying), it can also slow down how quickly some medications (especially oral ones like the pill or HRT tablets) are absorbed into the bloodstream.

➡️ If you’re on HRT tablets, poor absorption of progesterone can raise your risk of womb cancer — especially if you already have conditions like diabetes or PCOS.

➡️ If you’re on the pill, poor absorption can make it less effective and increase the risk of an unplanned pregnancy.

Please speak to your weight loss provider or GP Surgery if you are on either oral contraception or HRT before starting or continuing

🌼🐣 THANK YOU! 🐣🌼

To all our amazing patients

Your generous Easter Egg donations have helped support the Eat or Heat Food Bank, spreading joy and kindness to families in need.

💛 You made a difference – one egg at a time! 💛

Thanks to you, many children and families had a brighter, sweeter Easter.

🌸 From the bottom of our hearts – THANK YOU! 🌸