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Data Protection & Usage
Your Information
We ask for information about
yourself, so that we can give appropriate care and
treatment. This information is kept, together with details
of the care you have received, because it may be needed if
we see you again.
We use this information for reasons other than assisting
your healthcare and treatment. For example, looking after
the health of the general public. Everyone working for the
NHS has a legal duty to keep information confidential and
anybody who receives that information from us is bound by
the same legal duty.
If you are receiving care from other people as well as the
NHS, we may need to share information to enable us all to
work together for your benefit. We only ever pass on
information about you if people have a genuine need for it
in your and everyone's interests.
Can I see my own records? The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the general right to apply to
see or have a copy of any personal information held in your
health record, this is known as the right of ‘subject
access’.
If you want to see your records, you should make a written
request to the practice or your doctor. We are obliged to
let you see your
information and also explain any part of the record which
you do not understand. You are also entitled to receive a
copy of the information you have seen. Please note that a
charge will be made for
administration and consultation time if needed as this is
not an NHS service.
Should your doctor decide that seeing your records might put
your health at risk, you may only be shown part of your
records or your
request may be declined.
Access to records From time to time we may
have other Health Workers working in the practice who are
not directly related to our practice. This means that some
of these health workers may have access to your medical
records.
We have various locum doctors that work for us from time to
time and they will have access to your medical records, but
we also have people such as counsellors who may have access
to your records. Access is only given to records with the
express permission of a doctor.
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