Privacy policy
Your doctor and other health professionals caring for you, keep records about your health and any treatment and care you receive from the National Health Service (NHS). These help ensure that you receive the best possible care from us. They may be written down (manual records), or held on a computer.
We have a comprehensive team of clinical and administrative staff who are trained in the requirements of both the Data Protection Act and NHS Information Governance.
Download our Privacy Notice if you would like to know more about what information we keep about you, how it is used and how you can gain access to your health records.
Privacy Notice - Use of your data for Research Download here
If you wish to share your information with other healthcare professionals or decline to share your records, please download and complete our Information Sharing Form - 2019 and return it to the surgery.
Go here for more information about the new rules regarding your information and what we do with it.
Go here if you would like to download the Patient Information leaflet Your Data Matters to the NHS which explains how you can choose whether your confidential patient information is used for research and planning.
Population Health Management (PHM) Privacy Notice
Under data protection law we must tell you about how we use your personal information. This includes the personal information that we share with other organisations and why we do so. Our main GP practice privacy notice is on our website. This additional privacy notice provides details about Population Health Management.
Download our Population Health Management (PHM) Privacy Notice
Health Risk Screening / Risk Stratification
Health Risk Screening or Risk stratification is a process GPs use to help them to identify and support patients with long-term conditions and to help prevent un-planned hospital admissions or reduce the risk of certain diseases developing such as type 2 diabetes. This is called risk stratification for case-finding.
Risk stratification tools use historic information about patients, such as age, gender, diagnoses and patterns of hospital attendance and admission collected by NHS England from NHS hospitals and community care services. This is linked to data collected in GP practices and analysed to produce a risk score.
For more information, download the full Health Risk Screening / Risk Stratification document
iGPR
Practice Privacy Notice
We use a processor, iGPR Technologies Limited ("iGPR"), to assist us with responding to report requests relating to your patient data, such as subject access requests that you submit to us (or that someone acting on your behalf submits to us) and report requests that insurers submit to us under the Access to Medical Records Act 1988 in relation to a life insurance policy that you hold or that you are applying for.
iGPR manages the reporting process for us by reviewing and responding to requests in accordance with our instructions and all applicable laws, including UK data protection laws.
The instrctions we issue to iGPR include general insructions on responding to requests and specific instructions on issues that will require further consultation with the GP responsible for your care.