About your Summary Care Record Your Summary Care Record contains important information about any medicines you are taking, any allergies you suffer from and any bad reactions to medicines that you have previously experienced. Allowing authorised healthcare staff to have access to this information will improve decision making by doctors and other healthcare professionals and has prevented mistakes being made when patients are being cared for in an emergency or when their GP practice is closed.

Your Summary Care Record also includes your name, address, date of birth and your unique NHS Number to help identify you correctly. You may want to add other details about your care to your Summary Care Record. This will only happen if both you and your GP agree to do this. You should discuss your wishes with your GP practice. Healthcare staff will have access to this information, so that they can provide safer care, whenever or wherever you need it, anywhere in England.

A type 2 opt-out is where a patient has requested that their personal confidential information is not shared by the NHS for purposes other than their own direct health care.

Since 25th May 2018 patients with existing type 2 opt outs have been contacted by NHS Digital explaining about a new national opt out. The letter informs patients that their previous opt out has been converted to a new national opt out. More details about this can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters

After 1st October 2018 GP practices should not record any further type 2 opt outs. If you need any additional information and support relating to Type 2 opt-outs please contact NHS Digital contact centre at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk or call them on 0300 303 5678.

The data held in your GP medical records is shared with other healthcare
professionals for the purposes of your individual care. It is also shared with other organisations to support health and care planning and research.

https://your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk/landingpageIf you do not want your personally identifiable patient data to be shared outside of your GP practice for purposes except your own care, you can register an opt-out with your GP practice. This is known as a Type 1 Opt-out.
Type 1 Opt-outs may be discontinued in the future. If this happens then they may be turned into a National Data Opt-out. Your GP practice will tell you if this is going to happen and if you need to do anything. More information about the National Data Opt-out is here: https://your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk/landingpage

GDPR Privacy Policy – The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on the 25th May 2018 which gives you more transparency and control over your data. We value your privacy and are committed to respecting your personal data. We are registered with the Information Commissioners Office and are bound by the Data Protection Act.

Information about you, held within our computer and paper records, is handled with the strictest confidence. For the effective functioning of a multi-disciplinary team, it is sometimes necessary that medication information about you is shared between members of the practice team. A clear audit trail is held by the practice of who has accessed your records and all our staff are bound by strict rules of confidentiality.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 obliges the practice to produce a Publication statement. A publication statement is a guide to the ‘classes’ of information the practice intends to routinely make available. This scheme is available from reception or via our website.

Please treat our staff and other patients as you would like to be treated yourself. Equally, our staff will treat you with the same courtesy and respect.

Abusive, aggressive or threatening behavior directed towards Doctors, staff or other patient will NOT be tolerated and may result in removal from the practice list and possible legal action being taken.

The surgery has a ‘Privacy Policy’ and this has been updated to bring us in line with GDPR. This can be accessed from our website or you can request a paper copy from reception.

Patient data is not only vital for managing your care, it also plays an important role in other ways: planning health services, improving diagnosis and treatment and evaluating the effectiveness of policy. In the ‘Privacy Policy’ we explain;

• What we do with your data

• Who we share it with

• How you can opt-out of sharing Subject Access

GDPR is Europe’s new framework for data protection laws – it replaces the 1995 data protection directive. Previous UK law was based upon this directive.

The new legislation, which came in to force on 25th May 2018, is designed to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe. The new set of rules are designed to give EU citizens more control over their personal data as well as give greater protection and rights.

The practice manages the confidentiality of your medical records in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Our Primary Care Trust may require some of this data for auditing and research purposes. You may request that your data is excluded from these audits and research at any time. Please speak with reception for more information.

The Information Commissioner recognises the unprecedented challenges the NHS and other health professionals are facing during COVID-19.

In order to look after your healthcare needs during this difficult time, we may urgently need to share your personal information, including medical records, with clinical and non-clinical staff who belong to organisations that are permitted to use your information and need to use it to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.  This could (amongst other measures) consist of treating you; and enable us and other healthcare organisations to monitor the disease, assess risk and manage the spread of the disease. For the full practice statement please see the below document.

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