Your care records
The practice is registered and complies with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). Any request for access to notes by a patient, patient’s representative or outside body will be dealt with in accordance with the Act. Please contact the Practice Manager for further information.
Summary Care Record
If you’re registered with a GP surgery, you’ll have a Summary Care Record unless you’ve chosen not to have one. It contains basic information including your allergies, medicines and any reactions you’ve had to medicine in the past. By storing all this information in one place, it makes it easier for healthcare staff to treat you in an emergency, or when your GP practice is closed.
You can access your summary GP record online, via the NHS app. You can also request a copy of it at the surgery.
To opt out of having a Summary Care Record, speak to your GP or another health professional.
For further information, follow this link to visit the ‘How to access your health records’ page on the NHS website.
GP2GP
The General Medical Services GP Contract requires practices to use GP2GP for transferring electronic health records.
You will expect GPs to have your medical records for your first consultation at the new practice. With GP2GP, the record arrives straight after the registration. In comparison, paper medical records can take weeks or months to arrive.
GP2GP also means practices can support the Health Secretary’s objective that patients should have digital records that follow them around the health and social care system.
Find our more about GP2GP on the NHS website
Your data matters to the NHS
Your health records contain a type of data called confidential patient information. This data can be used to help with research and planning.
You can choose to stop your confidential patient information being used for research and planning. You can also make a choice for someone else like your children under the age of 13.
Your choice will only apply to the health and care system in England. This does not apply to health or care services accessed in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Find out how this data is used and how to opt out on the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/
How we use your health records
Please click the links below to see our ‘How We Use Your Health Records’ leaflet, ‘Our Practice Privacy Policy’ and ‘Your Data Matter to the NHS’ leaflet.
‘How We Use Your Health Records’ leaflet
‘Our Practice Privacy Policy’ leaflet
Sharing Your Data for anything other than your Personal Care & the National Data Opt-out
Why does NHS Digital (NHSD) need my information?
Patients’ personal confidential data is extracted and shared with NHS Digital in order to support vital health and care planning and research. Further information can be found by following link: NHS digital
Do I have to share my information?
No, patients may opt out of having their information shared for Planning or Research by applying a National Data Opt Out and/or a Type 1 Opt Out:
Type 1 Opt-out (opting out of NHS Digital collecting your data)
NHSD will not collect data from GP practices about patients who have registered a Type 1 Opt-out with their practice. More information about Type 1 Opt-outs is in the GP Data for Planning and Research Transparency Notice.
If you register a Type 1 Opt-out after this collection has started, no more of your data will be shared with NHSD. They will however still hold the patient data which was shared before you registered the Type 1 Opt-out.
You can use the form below to:
• register a Type 1 Opt-out, for yourself or for a dependent (if you are the parent or legal guardian of the patient) (to Opt-out)
• withdraw an existing Type 1 Opt-out, for yourself or a dependent (if you are the parent or legal guardian of the patient) if you have changed your preference (Opt-in)
Please complete the form and post to the surgery or email us at [email protected]
National Data Opt-out (opting out of NHS Digital sharing your data with other organisations)
If you have NOT registered a Type 1 opt-out, your data will be passed to NHSD.
If you do not want NHS Digital to share your identifiable patient data with anyone else for purposes beyond your own care, then you can also register a National Data Opt-out via the NHS website below.
To opt-out you must contact NHS Digital – more information about the National Data Opt-out is here: https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/
NHSD will collect data from GP medical records about patients who have registered a National Data Opt-out. The National Data Opt-out applies to identifiable patient data about your health, which is called confidential patient information.
NHS Digital won’t share any confidential patient information about you – this includes GP data, or other information, such as hospital data – with other organisations, unless there is an exemption to this. This decision will not affect individual care and you can change your choice at any time.
