Privacy Notice

St Georges Road Surgery

• 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/do 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 pseudonymised, is used to manage the NHS and make payments.
• We share information when the law requires us to do so, 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.