Every member of staff who works for an NHS organisation has a legal obligation to keep information about you confidential.
From May 2018, a new European regulation called the General Data Protection Regulation came into force and the practice also has a legal responsibility to ensure that we will also comply with these new regulations about personal data.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only use information collected lawfully in accordance with:
- General Data Protection Regulation 2017
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Human Rights Act 1998
- Common Law Duty of Confidentiality
- Health and Social Care Act 2012
- NHS Codes of Confidentiality, Information Security and Records Management
- Information: To Share or Not to Share Review
We will only ever use or pass on information about you if others involved in your care have a genuine need for it. We will not disclose your information to any third party without your permission unless there are exceptional circumstances such as a life or death situation, or where the law requires information to be passed, or where it is in the best interest of the patient to share the information.