Privacy Policy

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Confidentiality & Medical Records

The practice complies with data protection and access to medical records legislation. Identifiable information about you will be shared with others in the following circumstances:

• To provide further medical treatment for you e.g. from district nurses and hospital services.
• To help you get other services e.g. from the social work department. This requires your consent.
• When we have a duty to others e.g. in child protection cases anonymised patient information will also be used at local and national level to help the Health Board and Government plan services e.g. for diabetic care.

If you do not wish anonymous information about you to be used in such a way, please let us know.

Reception and administration staff require access to your medical records in order to do their jobs. These members of staff are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the medical staff.

Freedom of Information

Information about the General Practitioners and the practice required for disclosure under this act can be made available to the public. All requests for such information should be made to the practice manager.

Access to Records

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations and Access to Health Records Act, patients may request to see their medical records. Such requests should be made through the practice manager and may be subject to an administration charge.

No information will be released without the patient consent unless we are legally obliged to do so.

Access to medical records policy 

GDPR

The NHS and Leyland Surgery, The Surgery Chorley & Station Surgery operate under General Data Protection Regulations, keep up to date with GDPR at the surgery. 

Your rights over your personal data

To read more about the health and care information NHS Digital collects, its legal basis for collecting this information and what choices and rights you have in relation to the processing by NHS Digital of your personal data, see:

• the NHS Digital General Transparency Notice
• how NHS Digital looks after your health and care information

GPDPR (General Practice Data for Planning and Research)

Our practices are supporting vital health and care planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital. NHS Digital is part of the NHS - It collects, analyses, publishes, and shares data to improve everyone’s health and care. For more information about how NHS Digital will use the data we share with them please see the GP Practice Privacy Notice for General Practice Data for Planning and Research using the following link. General Practice Data for Planning and Research: GP Practice Privacy Notice - NHS Digital

Under data protection law we must tell you about how we use your personal information. This includes the personal information that we collect from and share with other organisations and why we do so. We do this through Transparency Notices. This additional Transparency Notice provides details about the personal information that we are sharing with NHS digital under the General Practice Data for Planning and Research data collection. For more information about this please follow the General Practice for Planning and Research: NHS Digital Transparency Notice on the following link. General Practice Data for Planning and Research: NHS Digital Transparency Notice - NHS Digital

National Data Opt-out (opting out of NHS Digital sharing your data)

This applies to identifiable patient data about your health, which is called confidential patient information. If you don’t want your confidential patient information to be shared by NHS Digital with other organisations for purposes except your own care - either GP data, or other data it holds, such as hospital data - you can register a National Data Opt-out.

If you have registered a National Data Opt-out, NHS Digital won’t share any confidential patient information about you with other organisations, unless there is an exemption to this, such as where there is a legal requirement or where it is in the public interest to do so, such as helping to manage contagious diseases like coronavirus. You can find out more about exemptions on the NHS website.

From 1 October 2021, the National Data Opt-out will also apply to any confidential patient information shared by the GP practice with other organisations for purposes except your individual care. It won’t apply to this data being shared by GP practices with NHS Digital, as it is a legal requirement for us to share this data with NHS Digital and the National Data Opt-out does not apply where there is a legal requirement to share data.

Type 1 Opt-Out

The data held in your GP medical records is shared with other healthcare professionals for the purposes of your individual care. It is also shared with other organisations to support health and care planning and research. If you do not want your personally identifiable patient data to be shared outside of your GP practice for purposes except your own care, you can register an opt-out with the practice. This is known as a type 1 opt-out. The type 1 opt-out form can be found on the practice websites privacy policy under “Type 1 Opt-Out”  at  www.thesurgerychorley.co.uk.

You can find out more about and register a National Data Opt-out, or change your choice on nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters or by calling 0300 3035678.

Type 1 Opt Out/ Opt In Form