What is GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the latest update to the Data Protection Act 1998 regulation and will apply from 25th May 2018. The legislation strengthens existing requirements, introduces new concepts and imposes greater emphasis on demonstrating compliance and significantly greater penalties for wrongdoings.

What are your rights?

Your fundamental rights have not changed, but they have been enhanced. As an individual you have the right to:

• Know what data is collected about you, what it is used for, how long it will be kept and who it is shared with
• Accessyour personal data
• Request that inaccurate data about you is corrected or that incomplete data is completed
• Ask for personal data held about you to be removed from your records (This is likely to exclude information that is necessary to your care)
• Restrict processing of your personal data which means you can limit how your data is used by us
• Data portability (this is new) – allows individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services (ICO, no date)
• Object to the processing or use of your personal data
• To not be subject to automated decision-making including profiling

More information about your rights can be found on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website: click here

Please note that the practice does not assume any responsibility for the information detailed on the ICO website.

Our duty

Our duty as a data controller is to share with you how we intend to use your information. This intention is detailed within a privacy notice that is available in the Surgery as well as here. Please see the resources below.

Click here to view our Covid Privacy Notice

The Data protection regulations are changing on the 25th May 2018, with the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018, to ensure that we are inline with these changes please see the updated documents below.

In light of the current crisis, we have received updated legal requirements with regard to COVID-19. Please see COVID-19 privacy notice for further details.

This practice is supporting vital coronavirus (COVID-19) planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital. For more information about this see the General Practice Transparency Notice for GPES Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (COVID-19) by clicking here

Policies

Click here to view our Recruitment Privacy Policy

Click here to view our Practice Privacy Policy

Click here to view our Medical Centre Privacy Policy

How do we use your information?

Click here to view how we use your information leaflet

Click here to view how we use your information poster

Click here to view GDPR Poster

NHS Digital General Practice Data for Planning and Research

This practice is supporting vital health and care planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital. For more information about this see our  Privacy Notice above.

Further information can be found on the NHS Digital website by clicking here

This collection will start on 01 September 2021.

If you do not want your data to be shared with NHS Digital, please register your Type 1 opt-out with us BEFORE the end of August 2021.

What data is shared:

Data may be shared from the GP medical records about:

• any living patient registered at a GP practice in England when the collection started – this includes children and adults
• any patient who died after 1 July 2021, and was previously registered at a GP practice in England when the data collection started

NHS Digital will not collect patients’ names or addresses. Any other data that could directly identify patients (such as NHS Number, date of birth, full postcode) is replaced with unique codes which are produced by de-identification software before the data is shared with NHS Digital.

This process is called pseudonymisation and means that patients will not be identified directly in the data. NHS Digital will be able to use the software to convert the unique codes back to data that could directly identify patients in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason.