Privacy Notice

How we use your medical records

We ask you for information about yourself so that you can receive proper care and treatment.

  • We keep records with details of your care because it may be needed if we see you again
  • We use information to make sure that our services can meet patient needs in the future
  • We use information to protect the health of the public generally – this could be for research or planning
  • We use information to help staff review the care they provide to make sure it is of the highest standard
  • We use information to train and educate staff (patients have a choice whether or not to be involved)

Bridge Street Surgery will

  • Handle medical records in line with laws on data protection and confidentiality
  • Share your medical records with those who are involved in providing you with care and treatment
  • Share your information when the law requires us to do so e.g. to prevent infectious disease from spreading
  • Acknowledge that you have a right to object to your medical records being shared with those who provide care to you
  • Keep your medical records secure, safe and confidential
  • Bridge Street Surgery are part of a Primary Care Network alongside Winterton Practice and Central Surgery, Barton.

Your Patient Rights

  • It is your right as a patient to ‘opt-out’ of data sharing. This is anonymised confidential information used for treatment and planning.
  • Yourself, or people acting for you as proxy, have control over setting and changing your own opt-out choice. You can change your mind on this at any time.
  • “NHS England has been directed by the government to establish and operate the OpenSAFELY COVID-19 Service and the OpenSAFELY Data Analytics
    Service. These services provide a secure environment that supports research, clinical audit, service evaluation and health surveillance for COVID-19 and
    other purposes.
    “Each GP practice remains the controller of its own GP patient data but is required to let approved users run queries on pseudonymised patient data. This
    means identifiers are removed and replaced with a pseudonym.
    “Only approved users are allowed to run these queries, and they will not be able to access information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals.
    “Patients who do not wish for their data to be used as part of this process can register a type 1 opt out with their GP.
    You can find additional information about OpenSAFELY at https://www.opensafely.org/ ”

‘Opting-out’

This has to be done by yourself, the surgery cannot do this for you. Please ask reception how to opt out or for more information.

For more information and our Data Protection and Confidentiality policies please read our policies and procedures.