How we use your medical records
This practice handles medical records according to the laws on data protection and confidentiality.
- We share medical records with health professionals who are involved in providing you with care and treatment. This is on a need to know basis and event by event.
- Some of your data is automatically copied to the Shared Care Summary Record.
- We may share some of your data with local out of hours / urgent or emergency care services
- Data about you is used to manage national screening campaigns such as Flu, Cervical cytology and Diabetes prevention.
- Data about you, usually de-identified, is used to manage the NHS and make payments.
- We share information when the law requires us to, for instance when we are inspected or are reporting certain illnesses or safeguarding vulnerable people.
- Your data is used to check the quality of care provided by the NHS.
- We may also share medical records for medical research
For more information please see our Privacy Policies Library below:
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- Privacy Notice – Direct Care -Emergencies for LTHCC.pdf
- Privacy Notice for Direct Care (routine care and referrals).pdf
- Privacy Notice – NHS Digital.pdf
- Privacy Notice – Payments.pdf
- Privacy Notice – How We Use Your Information
- Privacy Notice – Research.pdf
- Privacy Notice – Safeguarding.pdf
- Privacy Notice – Summary Care Record.pdf
- Privacy Notice – National screening programs.pdf
- Privacy Notice – Childrens Privacy Notice
- Privacy Notice – Covid-19
- Privacy Notice – Public Health.pdf
- Privacy Notice – GDPR Poster
- GP Practice Privacy Notice.docx
- Privacy Notice – Generic GDPR Data Protection and Confidentiallity Policy
- Privacy Notice – PHM Programme
- Privacy Notice – Practice – March 2025
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