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PRIVACY NOTICE PARBOLD SURGERY
Who are we?
Parbold Surgery are a partnership of general practitioners serving NHS patients in the Parbold locality.
What do we do with your information?
We collect your demographic data (name age sex address etc) and use your medical records with details such as diseases, operations and investigations to provide medical care. We may use your data to plan and improve services. We will process your data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and successor laws.
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How We Use Your Information
In order to provide for your care, we need to collect and keep information about you and your health on our records. Your records are used to:
- Provide a basis for all health decisions made by care professionals with and for you
- Make sure your care is safe and effective
- Work effectively with others providing you with care
We also may use, or share, your information for the following purposes:
- Looking after the health of the general public
- Making sure that our services can meet patient needs in the future
- Auditing accounts
- Preparing statistics on NHS performance and activity (where steps will be taken to ensure you cannot be identified)
- Investigating concerns, complaints or legal claims
- Helping staff to review the care they provide to make sure it is of the highest standards
- Training and educating staff
- Research approved by the Local Research Ethics Committee. (If anything to do with the research would involve you personally, you will be contacted to provide consent).
If you do not wish your Confidential Personal Information (CPI) to be used for these or other purposes please access the NHS Digital website and fill in the opt out form. It will explain fully the reason for opting out or staying in. You will need to make a choice. Anyone from the age of 13 years can make this choice. Or telephone the helpline on 0300 303 5678.
Who will it be shared with?
The staff of Parbold Surgery and any services we refer you to for your further treatment for example referrals to other parts of the NHS such as hospital services, GP Out of Hours services, ambulance, pharmacies, district nurses and other community nursing services.
We are obliged to share data collected as an NHS patient with NHS England under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 which gives NHS Digital statutory powers to require data from health or social care providers in England where NHS Digital has been directed to do so by the Department of Health (on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health) or NHS England.
The Department of Health has directed NHS Digital to perform this work but you can opt out by accessing the NHS digital website and filling in the form which is on there.
Disclosure of Information to Other Health and Social Professionals
We work with a number of other NHS and partner agencies to provide healthcare services to you. Below is a list of organisations that we may share your information with:
Our partner organisations
- other NHS hospitals
- relevant GP Practices
- dentists, opticians and pharmacies
- Private Sector Providers (private hospitals, care homes, hospices, contractors providing services to the NHS)
- Voluntary Sector Providers who are directly involved in your care
- Ambulance Trusts
- Specialist Trusts
- Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
- Clinical Commissioning Groups
- NHS 111
- Out of Hours medical service
- NHS walk in centres
- NHS England
- The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
We may also share your information, with your consent, and subject to strict sharing protocols, about how it will be used, with:
- Local authority departments, including social care and health (formerly social services), education and housing and public health
- Police and fire services
Computer System
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This practice operates a Clinical Computer System on which NHS Staff record information securely. This information can then be shared with other clinicians so that everyone caring for you is fully informed about your medical history, including allergies and medication.
To provide around the clock safe care, unless you have asked us not to, we will make information available to trusted organisations. Wherever possible, their staff will ask your consent before your information is viewed.
We consider patient consent as being the key factor in dealing with your health information.
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Shared Care Records
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To support your care, and improve the sharing of relevant information to our partner organisations when they are involved in looking after you, we will share information to other systems. The general principle is that information is passed to these systems unless you request this does not happen, but that system users should ask for your consent before viewing your record.
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How we keep your information confidential and secure
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We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only use information collected lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality, and the NHS Codes of Confidentiality and Security.
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Everyone working in, or for, the NHS must use personal information in a secure and confidential way.
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We will only ever use or pass on your information if there is a genuine need to do so. We will not disclose information about you to third parties without your permission unless there are exceptional circumstances, such as when the law requires.
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To protect your confidentiality, we will not normally disclose any medical information about you over the telephone, or by fax, unless we are sure that we are talking to you. This means that we will not disclose information to your family, friends, and colleagues about any medical matters at all, unless we know that we have your consent to do so or there is a clear best interest urgent medical reason.
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Anyone who receives information from us is also under a legal duty to keep it confidential and secure
All persons in the practice sign a confidentiality agreement that explicitly makes clear their duties in relation to personal health information and the consequences of breaching that duty.
Please be aware that your information will be accessed by non-clinical practice staff in order to perform tasks enabling the functioning of the practice. These are, but not limited to:
- Typing referral letters to hospital consultants or allied health professionals
- Opening letters from hospitals and consultants
- Scanning clinical letters, radiology reports and any other documents not available in electronic format
- Photocopying or printing documents for referral to consultants
- Handling, printing, photocopying and postage of medico legal and life assurance reports and of associated documents
Right of Access to your Health Information
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The Data Protection Act 1998 allows you to find out what information about you is held on computer and in manual records. This is known as “right of subject access” and applies to personal information held about you. If you want to see the information about you that the practice holds:
- This can be viewed on Patient Access or make an appointment at reception informing them the nature of your appointment.
- You will be required to provide ID before any information is released to you.
Who else may ask to access your information
- The law courts can insist that we disclose medical records to them
- Solicitors often ask for medical reports. These will always be accompanied by your signed consent for us to disclose information. We will not normally release details about other people that are contained in your records (eg wife, children, parents etc) unless we also have their consent
- Limited information is shared with Public Health England to help them organise national programmes for Public Health such as childhood immunisations
- Social Services. The Benefits Agency and others may require medical reports on you from time to time. These will often be accompanied by your signed consent to disclose information.
Failure to co-operate with these agencies can lead to loss of benefit or other support. However, if we have not received your signed consent we will not normally disclose information about you.
Life assurance companies frequently ask for medical reports on prospective clients. These are always accompanied by your signed consent form. We must disclose all relevant medical conditions unless you ask us not to do so. In that case, we would have to inform the insurance company that you have instructed us not to make a full disclosure to them.
You have the right, should you request it, to see reports to insurance companies or employers before they are sent.
Sharing your information without consent
We will normally ask you for your consent, but there are times when we may be required by law to share your information without your consent, for example:
- Where there is a serious risk of harm or abuse to you or other people
- Where a serious crime, such as assault, is being investigated or where it could be prevented
- Notification of new births
- Where we encounter infectious diseases that may endanger the safety of others, such as meningitis or measles (but not HIV/AIDS)
- Where a formal court order has been issued
- Where there is a legal requirement, for example if you had committed a Road Traffic Offence.
Parbold Practice is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Information you supply using any electronic form(s) on this website will only be used for the purpose(s) stated on the form
- Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
We use the NHS Account Messaging Service provided by NHS England to send you messages relating to your health and care. You need to be an NHS App user to receive these messages. Further information about the service can be found at the privacy notice for the NHS App managed by NHS England.
We also use the Accurx Messaging Service to send direct messages to you concerning your care. See here
Changes to this privacy notice
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice will be reviewed again on a regular basis.
Concerns
If you have any concerns about how we use or share your information, or you do not wish us to share your information, then please contact our Practice Manager who will be able to assist you
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