Privacy notice
As data controllers, GPs have fair processing responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means ensuring that your personal confidential data (PCD) is handled in ways that are safe, transparent and what you would reasonably expect. Please find documents and links below (if you can't access the information in the documents please contact the surgery for help).
Our Data Protection Officer is Dr. M. Umar.
They can be contacted by email on [email protected] or phone on 01282 510622.
Nelson Medical Practice
Yarnspinners Health Centre, Carr Road, Nelson, Lancashire. BB9 7SR
Privacy Notice
Why we hold information about you
- To be able to provide you with high quality health care. This information provides a basis for the health decisions we make about you.
- To provide you with health protection advice and information, for example this may include messages about the flu vaccination programme or health checks.
- As a Practice we occasionally engage in research. The aim is to make advances in medicine to improve health care in the future. You may be invited to enrol within a research programme. We may use your personal details to contact you about this.
This information can be in paper or online form.
We access and process the data under the lawful basis of ‘legitimate interest’ – of providing health care and public health.
What information will we hold?
- Basic details including name, date of birth, address and if provided details of next of kin, family to contact with your consent.
- Clinical consultations, these will include, telephone consultations and face to face
- Correspondence about your health/clinic appointments from the hospital and other health care professionals
- Details of investigations and results for example, bloods and x-rays
- Family history if relevant
- Other data for outside agencies for example, gun licensing.
Confidential information
- All information we keep about you is kept safe.
- Information is shared only with those who are involved in your health care or if we have gained your consent to share elsewhere. You may be contacted directly by the Practice to participate in research.
- Information cannot be shared with your family members unless explicit consent has been given. There are a few exceptions to this for example if the patient does not have capacity or in cases where consent cannot be gained. (In this situation vital interest would be considered).
Opting Out
You can choose to stop health and social care organisations from sharing your confidential information for research and planning purposes, with some exceptions such as where there is a legal mandate/direction or an overriding public interest i.e. helping to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Just contact the Practice and let them know.
