Privacy

Your Data, Privacy and the Law. How We Use Your Medical Records

• This practice handles medical records according to the laws on data protection and confidentiality
• We share medical records with health professionals who are involved in providing you with care and treatment. This is on a need to know basis and event by event.
• Some of your data is automatically copied to the Shared Care Summary Record
• We share some of your data with local out of hours / urgent or emergency care services
• Data about you is used to manage national screening campaigns such as Flu, Cervical cytology and Diabetes prevention
• Data about you, usually de-identified, is used to manage the NHS and make payments
• We share information when the law requires us to do, for instance when we are inspected or reporting certain illnesses or safeguarding vulnerable people
• Your data is used to check the quality of care provided by the NHS
• We may also share medical records for medical research