Practice Privacy Statement

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Fullarton Medical Practice – Privacy Statement

The Privacy Notice explains why the GP practice collects information about you and how that information may be used.

Health care professionals who provide you with care maintain records about your health and any treatment or care you have received previously (e.g. Hospital, GP Surgery) These records are used to help to provide you with the best possible healthcare.

NHS health care records may be electronic, on paper or a mixture of both, and we use a combination of working practices and technology to ensure that your information is kept confidential and secure. Records this GP Practice hold about you may include the following information;

  • Details about you, such as your name, address, carers, legal representatives and emergency contact details
  • Any contact the surgery has had with you, such as appointments, clinic visits. emergency appointments, etc
  • Notes and reports about your health
  • Details about your treatment and care
  • Results of investigations such as laboratory tests, x-rays, etc
  • Relevant information from other health professionals, relatives or those who care for youSome of this information will be held centrally and used for statistical purposes. Where we do this, we take strict measures to ensure that individual patients cannot be indentified. Sometimes your information may be requested to be used for research purposes – the surgery will always gain your consent before releasing the information for this purpose.  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 ensure you receive the best possible care, your records are used to facilitate the care you receive. Information held about you may be used to help protect the health of the public and to help us manage the NHS. Information may be used within the GP practice for clinical audit to monitor the quality of the service provided.
  • 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.

More information on how we will manage your data is available here:

https://www.fullartonmedicalpractice.scot.nhs.uk/general-data-protection-regulations/

https://www.rcgp.org.uk/terms-and-conditions/rcgp-website-privacy-statement.aspx