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Privacy and Confidentiality
What information we hold about you
What we use it for
Sharing your information with other people
Website related privacy and confidentiality
What information we hold about you
We ask you for information about yourself so that we can give you 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.
What we use it for
We may use this information for reasons other than assisting your healthcare and treatment. For example looking at issues of public health or planning our services including:
Preparing statistics on our performance for the NHS and making sure our
services meet patients’ needs. The data is made anonymous.
Helping staff review the care they provide to make sure it is of the highest
standard.Sharing your information with other people
Everyone one working for the NHS has a legal duty to keep your information confidential and anyone who receives that information from us is bound by the same legal duty. Within our Primary Healthcare Team the doctors, nurses and others caring for you use a shared record, but only access the information they need to provide you with care. 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 use or pass on information about you if people have a genuine need for it in your interests. Whenever we can we shall remove details that would identify you.
The sharing of some information is strictly controlled by law. So unless there are exceptional circumstances such as when the safety of others is at risk we will not disclose your information to third parties without your permission. We will only give information to your relatives, friends and carers if you want us to. Sometimes the law requires us to report information to appropriate authorities, for example, to notify a birth or to protect the safety of members of the public.
Our aim is to ensure that any records we have about you are accurate, secure, held in confidence and only accessed on a strictly need to know basis.
Website related privacy and confidentiality
To view this website we do not need your personal details. If you do submit any details via the website, your personal details, email address and email content will be treated as confidential and subject to the same General Medical Council rules on confidentiality as for any medical information.
Any emails that you may send will be treated as confidentially as any medical information that we have for our patients and subject to the same GMC rules on confidentiality.
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Last updated 17 August 2008