Your data, privacy and the Law - How we use your medical records
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- This practice handles medical records according to the laws on data protection and confidentiality
- We share medical records with health and social care 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 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 do, for instance when we are inspected or 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 anonymised medical records for medical research. We are signed up to a number of data sharing agreements with other health organisations (such as other practices within our PCN, ICB) that support us in delivering and enhancing patient care through the use of digital tools.
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NHS England has been directed by the government to establish and operate the OpenSAFELY COVID-19 Service and the OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service. These services provide a secure environment that supports research, clinical audit, service evaluation and health surveillance for COVID-19 and other purposes.
Each GP practice remains the controller of its own GP patient data but is required to let approved users run queries on pseudonymised patient data. This means identifiers are removed and replaced with a pseudonym.
Only approved users are allowed to run these queries. And they will not be able to access information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals
Patients who do not wish for their data to be used as part of this process can register a type 1 opt with their GP. Here you can find more information about OpenSAFELY. OpenSAFELY: Home
How We Use Your Health Records