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Privacy

Privacy notice

As data controllers, GPs have fair processing responsibilities under the Data Protection Act and GDPR law 2018. This means ensuring that your personal confidential data (PCD) is handled in ways that are safe, transparent and what you would reasonably expect. Please find documents and links below.

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GDPR Information The Dicconson Group Practice

Sharing your records: your personal information

Information about you is used in a number of ways by the NHS and social care services to support your personal care and to improve health and social care services for everyone.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is the national NHS organisation with a legal responsibility to collect data as people make use of NHS and social care services.  The data is used both at a local level and nationally to help with planning, managing your care, supporting research into new tretments, identifying trends and issues and so forth, and is used to try to make services better for all.

You can, however, choose not to have information about you shared or used for any purpose beyond providing your own treatment or care.

Your right to opt out

You can choose not to have anything that could identify you shared beyond your GP practice.  You can also choose for the HSCIC not to share information it collects from all health providers any further.

If you have previously told us that you don’t want the HSCIC to share your personal confidential information for purposes other than your own care and treatment, your opt-out will have been implemented by the HSCIC from April 29th 2016.  It will remain in place unless you change it.

Simply contact the surgery either to register an opt-out or end an opt-out you have already registered and we will update your medical record.  We will also be able to confirm whether or not you have registered an opt-out in the past.

You can find more information about how the HSCIC handles your information and choices and how it managaes your opt-out on the HSCIC website www.hscic.gov.uk/yourinfo

 

 

 

 


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Date published: 18th October, 2014
Date last updated: 31st July, 2020