Privacy policy

GDPR-How your information is shared so that this practice can meet legal requirements

Alum Rock Medical Centre

How your information is shared so that this practice can meet legal requirements

The law requires Alum Rock Medical Centre to share information from your medical records in certain circumstances. Information is shared so that the NHS or Public Health England can, for example:

·         plan and manage services;

·         check that the care being provided is safe;

·         prevent infectious diseases from spreading. 

We will share information with NHS Digital, the Care Quality Commission and local health protection team (or Public Health England) when the law requires us to do so. Please see below for more information.

We must also share your information if a court of law orders us to do so.

 NHS Digital

·         NHS Digital is a national body which has legal responsibilities to collect information about health and social care services. 

·         It collects information from across the NHS in England and provides reports on how the NHS is performing. These reports help to plan and improve services to patients.

·         This practice must comply with the law and will send data to NHS Digital, for example, when it is told to do so by the Secretary of State for Health or NHS England under the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

·         More information about NHS Digital and how it uses information can be found at:

https://digital.nhs.uk/home

Care Quality Commission (CQC)

·         The CQC regulates health and social care services to ensure that safe care is provided. 

·         The law says that we must report certain serious events to the CQC, for example, when patient safety has been put at risk.

·         For more information about the CQC see: https://www.cqc.org.uk/

Public Health

·         The law requires us to share data for public health reasons, for example to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or other diseases which   threaten the health of the population.

·         We will report the relevant information to local health protection team or Public Health England.

·         For more information about Public Health England and disease reporting see: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/notifiable-diseases-and-causative-organisms-how-to-report

GDPR-How your information is used for medical research and to measure the quality of care

Please click here to download an updated version of the Policy

GDPR-National screening programmes

National screening programmes

·         The NHS provides national screening programmes so that certain diseases can be detected at an early stage.

·         These screening programmes include bowel cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, aortic aneurysms and a diabetic eye screening service.

·         The law allows us to share your contact information with Public Health England so that you can be invited to the relevant screening programme.

·         More information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/topic/population-screening-programmes or speak to the practice.

We are required by law to provide you with the following information about how we handle your information in relation to our legal obligations to share data.

Data Controller contact details

Dr Aleem Akhtar

01213289579

Data Protection Officer contact details 

Mr Sohail Younas

Purpose of the processing

 

·         The NHS provides several national health screening programmes to detect diseases or conditions early such as cervical and breast cancer, aortic aneurysm and diabetes.

·         The information is shared so that the correct people are invited for screening. This means those who are most at risk can be offered treatment.

Lawful basis for processing

 

The following sections of the GDPR allow us to contact patients for screening.

Article 6(1)(e) – ‘processing is necessary…in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller...’’

Article 9(2)(h) – ‘processing is necessary for the purpose of preventative…medicine…the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...’

Recipient or categories of recipients of the processed data

The data will be shared with BEN Retinopathy, Breast Screening Services, and Cytology Screening.

Rights to object

 

For national screening programmes: you can opt so that you no longer receive an invitation to a screening programme.

See: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/opting-out-of-the-nhs-population-screening-programmes 

Or speak to your practice.

Right to access and correct

·         You have the right to access your medical record and have any errors or mistakes corrected. Please speak to a member of staff to look at our ‘subject access request’ policy .

  • We are not aware of any circumstances in which you will have the right to delete correct information from your medical record; although you are free to obtain your own legal advice if you believe there is no lawful purpose for which we hold the information and contact us if you hold a different view.

Retention period

 

GP medical records will be kept in line with the law and national guidance.

Information on how long records can be kept can be found at: https://digital.nhs.uk/article/1202/Records-Management-Code-of-Practice-for-Health-and-Social-Care-2016

or speak to the practice.

Right to complain

 

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. If you wish to complain follow this linkhttps://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ or call the helpline 0303 123 1113

 

Data we get from other organisations

We receive information about your health from other organisations who are involved in providing you with health and social care. For example, if you go to hospital for treatment or an operation the hospital will send us a letter to let us know what happens. This means your GP medical record is kept up-to date when you receive care from other parts of the health service.