Practice Privacy Notice

Your data, privacy and the Law

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 service
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 medical records for medical research

For more information visit web site www.stalbansmedicalcentre.co.uk

To support your care and improve the sharing of relevant information to our partner organisations when they are involved in looking after you, we will share information to other systems. The general principle is that information is passed to these systems unless you request that this does not happen.

Our partner organisations are: