Policy - GDPR 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 Emergency Care Summary - we may 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, for instance when we are inspected or are reporting certain illnesses or safeguarding vulnerable people.
• Your data is used to check the quality of care provided by the NHS.