Privacy policy

We ask you for information so that you can receive proper care and treatment.

We keep this information, together with details of your care, because it may be needed if we see you again.

We may use some of this information for other reasons: for example to help us protect the health of the public generally and to see that the NHS runs efficiently, plans for the future, trains its staff, pays its bills and can account for its actions. Information may also be needed to help educate tomorrow’s clinical staff and to carry out medical and other health research for the benefit of everyone.

Sometimes the law requires us to pass on information: for example, to notify a birth.

You have a right of access to your health records. All requests for access must be in writing using the form provided by the practice.

Please see below details of our privacy policies:

Overarching Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice – Care Quality Commission

Privacy Notice for Staff

Privacy Notice Emergencies

Privacy Notice – Direct Care, (routine care and referrals)

Privacy Notice – Sharing Information with NHS Digital

Public Health Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice – Commissioning, Planning, risk stratification, patient identification

Privacy Notice - Safeguarding

Privacy Notice – Call Recording

Privacy Notice – For staff Vaccination Information

CHILDREN PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy – Easy Read Version

OHP Easy Read Privacy Statement

Everyone working for the NHS has a legal duty to keep information about you confidential.

You may be receiving care from other people as well as the NHS. So that we can all work together for your benefit we may need to share some information about you.

We only ever use or pass on information about you if people have a genuine need for it in your and everyone’s interests. Whenever we can we shall remove details that identify you.

The sharing of some types of very sensitive personal information is strictly controlled by law.
Anyone who receives information from us is under a legal duty to keep it confidential.

Under 16s

The duty of confidentiality owed to a person under 16 is as great as the duty owed to any other person. Young people aged under 16 years can choose to see health professionals, without informing their parents or carers. If a GP considers that the young person is competent to make decisions about their health, then the GP can give advice, prescribe and treat the young person without seeking further consent.

However, in terms of good practice, health professionals will encourage young people to discuss issues with a parent or carer. As with older people, sometimes the law requires us to report information to appropriate authorities in order to protect young people or members of the public.

How We Share Your Data – Local & National Schemes

Provision of Information to Third Parties

The practice may share your personal information with other NHS organisations where this is appropriate for your healthcare.

In other circumstances we may approach you for specific consent to release personal information to third parties.

In some circumstances there are statutory or ethical obligations to disclose information to others (such as public health issues) which may not require your consent. However you will be consulted about these in advance unless there is an over-riding public interest in not doing so.