The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new law that determines how your personal data is processed and kept safe, and the legal rights that you have in relation to your own data.

The regulation applies from 25th May 2018 and will apply even after the UK leaves the EU.

What GDPR will mean for patients

The GDPR sets out the key principles about processing personal data, for staff or patients:

• Data must be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently.
• It must be collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes.
• It must be limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
• Information must be accurate and kept up to date.
• Data must be held securely.
• It can be retained for as long as is necessary for the reasons it was collected.

There are also stronger rights for patients regarding the information that practices hold about them. These include:

• Being informed about how their data is used.
• Patients to have access to their own data.
• Patients can ask to have incorrect information changed.
• Restrict how their data is used.
• Move their patient data from one health organisation to another.
• The right to object to their patient information being processed (in certain circumstances).

PRIVACY NOTICE

Privacy Notice – Practice 

 

 

Objections / Complaints

Should you have any concerns about how your information is managed at the GP practice, please contact Emma Stephenson our Practice Manager. If you are still unhappy following a review by the GP practice, you can then complain to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) via their website www.ico.gov.uk, casework@ico.org.uk , telephone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745.

If you are happy for your data to be extracted and used for the purposes described in this privacy notice then you do not need to do anything.  If you have any concerns about how your data is shared then please contact the practice.