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
For more information please read the following Detailed Privacy Notices:
Privacy Notice for Direct Care Emergencies
Privacy Notice for Direct Care
Privacy Notice for Disclosures to the Police
Privacy Notice for Email Messages
Privacy Notice for National Data Opt Out
Privacy Notice for National Screening Programs
Privacy Notice for NHS Counter Fraud
Privacy Notice for NHS Digital
Privacy Notice for Other Third Parties
Privacy Notice for Patient Online Access
Privacy Notice for Public Health
Privacy Notice for Risk Stratification
Privacy Notice for Safeguarding
Privacy Notice for SMS Text Messages
Privacy Notice for Summary Care Record
Privacy Notice for the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
Privacy Notice for the General Medical Council (GMC)
Privacy Notice for the Health Service Ombudsman (HSO)
Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA)
The core principles of PIA are applied to any project which involves the use of personal data, or to any other activity which could have an impact on the privacy of individuals.
We will carry out a PIA where processing is likely to result in high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals, in particular:
- Automated processing
- Large scale processing of special categories data – which includes health and genetic data
- Systematic monitoring of a public area on a large scale
Below are links to existing Privacy Impact Assessments:
Privacy Impact Assessment for AccuRx Chain SMS
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- Breastfeeding Policy
- Chaperone Policy
- Confidentiality Policy
- Consent Policy
- Freedom Of Information
- Green Impact Policy
- Infection Prevention & Control Policy
- Information Governance Policy
- Menopause Policy
- National Data Opt-Out
- Net GP Earnings
- Patient Accessible Information Standard
- Practice Strategy 2018-2023
- Privacy
- Safeguarding Policy
- Suggestions & Complaints
- Treating Patients With Dignity & Respect Policy
- Zero Tolerance