General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

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 share some of your data with local out of hours / urgent or emergency care service’s. For more information on this please speak to a member of the reception team.
• 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 de-identified medical records for medical research.

For more information please click on any of the attached links below:

How We Use Your Data

Data Protection Complaints Process Policy v1 2026

GP GDPR Privacy Notice v3.10 June 2026

GP PPG Privacy Notice v1.4 June 2026

General Practice SAR form

CQC Privacy Notice

NHS Digital Privacy Notice

COVID19 Privacy Notice