Practice Privacy Notice
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 may share some of your data with local out of hours / urgent care service
- 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
More detailed information regarding how you data is used can be found in the attached Privacy Notices:
GDPR Practice Privacy Notice
GDPR Children Privacy Notice
GDPR Candidate Privacy Notice
GDPR Employee Privacy Notice
COVID19 Privacy Notice
Health Navigator
Data is being processed for the purpose of delivering a clinical coaching service, provided by a company called HN. This service is delivered by a specially trained nurse or healthcare professional who will work with you on a one-to-one basis to advise on the best way to manage your condition(s). We will share your contact details with HN to enable them to contact you and confirm that you would want to take part in HN’s clinical coaching. This service will help provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to improve your health and quality of life. HN will only use your data for the purposes of delivering their service to you. If you do not wish to take part in the service provided by HN we will continue to manage your care within the Practice. HN are required to hold data we send them in line with retention periods outlined in the Records Management code of Practice for Health and Social Care.
Further information about HN and their clinical coaching service is available at https://www.hn-company.co.uk/