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Our Privacy Notice

Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 April 2025

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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 / do 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 

 

For more information  

 

  • Open documents below 

  • Posters are displayed in reception 

  • Visit our Website https://www.nhs.uk/Services/GP/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=41779  

  • Ask a member of Staff on reception for our folder which will have copies of our pollicises related to GDPO