The New Surgery
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 or emergency 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
Please ask at Reception if you wish to see our detailed Privacy Notices on the following:
Direct Care (Routine Care and Referrals)
Commissioning, Planning, Risk Stratification, Patient Identification
NHS Screening Programmes
CQC
Direct Care – Emergencies
Payments
Summary Care Record
NHS Digital
Public Health
Research
Safeguarding
Fair Notice Policy
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