Privacy notice
We store your personal health information on our computer system. This is strictly confidential to the team involved in your care and will be shared with other parties if we have your written consent or if we are required by law to do so. If you need to see or obtain copies of your medical records then you must write to the P Manager. If you or a third party need to have sight of your medical notes they can be accessed by you if you have registered for online services with the practice. You may then wish to forward them yourself to the third party concerned. Alternately we can email them to you if you prefer.
Data Protection Officer: Dr Uma Basu
Fair Processing
https://www.eastlondonhcp.nhs.uk/aboutus/fair-processing-and-gdpr.htm
Privacy Notice
How we use your medical records
Important information for patients
- This practice handles medical records in line with the Laws on Data Protection and Confidentiality
- We share medical records with those who are involved in providing you with the care and treatment including services that send out invitations for national screening programmes such as smear tests, children immunisations, breast and bowel screening etc.
- In some circumstances we will also share medical records for medical research for example to find out more about why people get ill only with informed patient consent.
- We share information when the law requires us to do so for example to prevent infectious diseases from spreading and to check that the care provided to you is safe.
- You have the right to be given a copy of your medical records being shared with those who provide you with care.
- You have the right to object to your information being used for medical research and to plan health services.
- You have the right to have any mistakes/errors corrected and to complain to the Information Commissioners Office
- For more information ask at reception desk for a leaflet
Download the EAST END MEDCIAL CENTRE PRIVACY NOTICE
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