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

General Practice SAR form

CQC Privacy Notice

NHS Digital Privacy Notice