Dr Ian Czerniewski Dr Kate Reynolds Dr Sam Chesser Dr Laura Harris
Dunchurch Surgery
Dunsmore Heath
Dunchurch, Rugby
Warwickshire CV22 6AP
Tel: 01788 522448
How Dunchurch Surgery uses your information to provide you with healthcare
This practice keeps medical records confidential and complies with the General Data Protection Regulation.
We hold your medical record so that we can provide you with safe care and treatment.
We will also use your information so that this practice can check and review the quality of the care we provide. This helps us to improve our services to you.
· We will share relevant information from your medical record with other health or social care staff or organisations when they provide you with care. For example, your GP will share information when they refer you to a specialist in a hospital. Or your GP will send details about your prescription to your chosen pharmacy.
· For more information on how we share your information with organisations who are directly involved in your please ask at reception or go to our website- www.dunchurchsurgery.warwickshire.nhs.uk and the GDPR tab.
· Healthcare staff working in A&E and out of hours care will also have access to your information. For example, it is important that staff who are treating you in an emergency know if you have any allergic reactions. This will involve the use of your Summary Care Record . For more information see: https://digital.nhs.uk/summary-care-records or alternatively speak to your practice.
· In order to improve Covid vaccine appointment availability and share local resources effectively all practices in Rugby are using an IT booking system called ‘Accurx’ to allow cross-practice appointment booking.
At the Covid vaccination clinic, your vaccination data is entered into ‘Pinnacle’ which has been commissioned by the government as a national IT solution to allow instant updating of the National Immunisation Management Service. This allows the government to obtain real time data on the number of people vaccinated and also any immediate adverse reaction. NHS England my also use this data to monitor the effectiveness of the vaccine programme
· You have the right to object to information being shared for your own care. Please write to the practice manager if you wish to object. You also have the right to have any mistakes or errors corrected.
Other important information about how your information is used to provide you with healthcare
Registering for NHS care
· All patients who receive NHS care are registered on a national database.
· This database holds your name, address, date of birth and NHS Number but it does not hold information about the care you receive.
· The database is held by NHS Digital, NHS Wales Information Services, a national organisation which has legal responsibilities to collect NHS data.
· More information can be found at: https://digital.nhs.uk/ or the phone number for general enquires at NHS Digital is 0300 303 5678]
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Identifying patients who might be at risk of certain diseases
· Your medical records will be searched by a computer programme so that we can identify patients who might be at high risk from certain diseases such as heart disease or unplanned admissions to hospital.
· This means we can offer patients additional care or support as early as possible.
· This process will involve linking information from your GP record with information from other health or social care services you have used.
· Information which identifies you will only be seen by this practice.
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Safeguarding
· Sometimes we need to share information so that other people, including healthcare staff, children or others with safeguarding needs, are protected from risk of harm.
· These circumstances are rare.
· We do not need your consent or agreement to do this.
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We are required by law to provide you with the following information about how we handle your information.
Data Controller contact details
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Drs Czerniewski, Reynolds, Chesser & Harris. Dunchurch Surgery, Dunsmore Heath, Dunchurch, Rugby,
CV22 6AP
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Data Protection Officer contact details
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If you have any queries please contact the Practice Manager.
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Purpose of the processing
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· To give direct health or social care to individual patients.
· For example, when a patient agrees to a referral for direct care, such as to a hospital, relevant information about the patient will be shared with the other healthcare staff to enable them to give appropriate advice, investigations, treatments and/or care.
· To check and review the quality of care. (This is called Audit and clinical governance).
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Lawful basis for processing
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These purposes are supported under the following sections of the GDPR:
Article 6(1)(e) ‘…necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority…’; and
Article 9(2)(h) ‘necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...”
Healthcare staff will also respect and comply with their obligations under the common law duty of confidence.
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Recipient or categories of recipients of the processed data
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The data will be shared with:
· healthcare professionals and staff in this surgery;
· local hospitals;
· out of hours services;
· diagnostic and treatment centres;
· or other organisations involved in the provision of direct care to individual patients.
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Rights to object
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· You have the right to object to information being shared between those who are providing you with direct care.
· This may affect the care you receive – please speak to the practice.
· You are not able to object to your name, address and other demographic information being sent to NHS Digital.
· This is necessary if you wish to be registered to receive NHS care.
· You are not able to object when information is legitimately shared for safeguarding reasons.
· In appropriate circumstances it is a legal and professional requirement to share information for safeguarding reasons. This is to protect people from harm.
· The information will be shared with the local safeguarding service
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Right to access and correct
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· You have the right to access your medical record and have any errors or mistakes corrected. Please write to the Practice Manager.
- We are not aware of any circumstances in which you will have the right to delete correct information from your medical record; although you are free to obtain your own legal advice if you believe there is no lawful purpose for which we hold the information and contact us if you hold a different view.
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Retention period
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GP medical records will be kept in line with the law and national guidance. Information on how long records are kept can be found at: https://digital.nhs.uk/article/1202/Records-Management-Code-of-Practice-for-Health-and-Social-Care-2016
or speak to the practice.
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Right to complain
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You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. If you wish to complain follow this link https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ or call the helpline 0303 123 1113
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Data we get from other organisations
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We receive information about your health from other organisations who are involved in providing you with health and social care. For example, if you go to hospital for treatment or an operation the hospital will send us a letter to let us know what happens. This means your GP medical record is kept up-to date when you receive care from other parts of the health service.
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This practice may keep data on you relating to who you are, where you live, what you do, your family, possibly your friends, your employers, your habits, your problems and diagnoses, the reasons you seek help, your appointments, where you are seen and when you are seen, who by, referrals to specialists and other healthcare providers, tests carried out here and in other places, investigations and scans, treatments and outcomes of treatments, your treatment history, the observations and opinions of other healthcare workers, within and without the NHS as well as comments and aide memoires reasonably made by healthcare professionals in this practice who are appropriately involved in your health care.
When registering for NHS care, all patients who receive NHS care are registered on a national database, the database is held by NHS Digital, a national organisation which has legal responsibilities to collect NHS
GPs have always delegated tasks and responsibilities to others that work with them in their surgeries, on average an NHS GP has between 1,500 to 2,500 patients for whom he or she is accountable. It is not possible for the GP to provide hands on personal care for each and every one of those patients in those circumstances, for this reason GPs share your care with others, predominantly within the surgery but occasionally with outside organisations.
If your health needs require care from others elsewhere outside this practice we will exchange with them whatever information about you that is necessary for them to provide that care. When you make contact with healthcare providers outside the practice but within the NHS it is usual for them to send us information relating to that encounter. We will retain part or all of those reports. Normally we will receive equivalent reports of contacts you have with non NHS services but this is not always the case.
Your consent to this sharing of data, within the practice and with those others outside the practice is assumed and is allowed by the Law.
People who have access to your information will only normally have access to that which they need to fulfil their roles, for instance admin staff will normally only see your name, address, contact details, appointment history and registration details in order to book appointments, the practice nurses will normally have access to your immunisation, treatment, significant active and important past histories, your allergies and relevant recent contacts whilst the GP you see or speak to will normally have access to everything in your record.
You have the right to object to our sharing your data in these circumstances but we have an overriding responsibility to do what is in your best interests. Please see below.
We are required by Articles in the General Data Protection Regulations to provide you with the information in the following 9 subsections.
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1) Data Controller contact details
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Drs Czerniewski, Reynolds, Chesser & Harris. Dunchurch Surgery, Dunsmore Heath, Dunchurch, Rugby, CV22 6AP
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2) Data Protection Officer contact details
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If you have any queries please contact the Practice Manager.
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3) Purpose of the processing
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Direct Care is care delivered to the individual alone, most of which is provided in the surgery. After a patient agrees to a referral for direct care elsewhere, such as a referral to a specialist in a hospital, necessary and relevant information about the patient, their circumstances and their problem will need to be shared with the other healthcare workers, such as specialist, therapists, technicians etc. The information that is shared is to enable the other healthcare workers to provide the most appropriate advice, investigations, treatments, therapies and or care.
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4) Lawful basis for processing
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The processing of personal data in the delivery of direct care and for providers’ administrative purposes in this surgery and in support of direct care elsewhere is supported under the following Article 6 and 9 conditions of the GDPR:
Article 6(1)(e) ‘…necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority…’.
Article 9(2)(h) ‘necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...”
We will also recognise your rights established under UK case law collectively known as the “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”*
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5) Recipient or categories of recipients of the processed data
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The data will be shared with Health and care professionals and support staff in this surgery and at hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centres who contribute to your personal care. Such as local hospitals, e.g. St Cross or UHCW
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6) Rights to object
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You have the right to object to some or all the information being processed under Article 21. Please contact the Data Controller or the practice. You should be aware that this is a right to raise an objection, that is not the same as having an absolute right to have your wishes granted in every circumstance
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7) Right to access and correct
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You have the right to access the data that is being shared and have any inaccuracies corrected. There is no right to have accurate medical records deleted except when ordered by a court of Law.
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8) Retention period
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The data will be retained in line with the law and national guidance. https://digital.nhs.uk/article/1202/Records-Management-Code-of-Practice-for-Health-and-Social-Care-2016
or speak to the practice.
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9) Right to Complain.
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You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, you can use this link https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
or calling their helpline Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)
There are National Offices for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, (see ICO website)
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* “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”, common law is not written out in one document like an Act of Parliament. It is a form of law based on previous court cases decided by judges; hence, it is also referred to as 'judge-made' or case law. The law is applied by reference to those previous cases, so common law is also said to be based on precedent.
The general position is that if information is given in circumstances where it is expected that a duty of confidence applies, that information cannot normally be disclosed without the information provider's consent.
In practice, this means that all patient information, whether held on paper, computer, visually or audio recorded, or held in the memory of the professional, must not normally be disclosed without the consent of the patient. It is irrelevant how old the patient is or what the state of their mental health is; the duty still applies.
Three circumstances making disclosure of confidential information lawful are:
- where the individual to whom the information relates has consented;
- where disclosure is in the public interest; and
- where there is a legal duty to do so, for example a court order.
SHARING YOUR DATA OUTSIDE THE PRACTICE
As a result of improvements in information technology and appropriate information governance standards, it is becoming possible to share your GP records across Coventry & Warwickshire Health & Social Care electronically using the practice clinical system. We will only share this information with your explicit consent, when seeing a health worker so that you are able to allow doctors, nurses and other health and social care services in other health organisations to view the information held on your GP records. Therefore, enabling health organisations to provide an appropriate health service required to meet the patients’ needs.
The following are examples of the types of organisations that we are likely to share information with:
· NHS and specialist hospitals, Trusts
· Independent Contractors such as dentists, opticians, pharmacists
· Private and Voluntary Sector Providers
· Ambulance Trusts
· Clinical Commissioning Groups and Primary Care Networks
· Social Care Services and Local Authorities
Any patient can choose to withdraw their consent to their data being used in this way. When the Surgery is about to participate in any new data-sharing scheme we will make patients aware by displaying prominent notices in the Surgery and on our website. These schemes are only for direct care so you (or your carer) will be present when the information is accessed and will be asked for consent again, before your records are opened.
A patient can object to their personal information being shared with other health care providers and can withhold consent but if this limits the treatment that you can receive then the doctor will explain this to you at the time.
Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Record
Dunchurch Surgery works with other health and social care organisations to share information that will form part of your Integrated Care Record. The Integrated Care Record allows health and care professionals involved in your care to view your records to help them understand your needs and make the best decisions with you, and for you. Information we hold about you will be available, to read only, to other Health and care professionals in Coventry and Warwickshire, Birmingham and Solihull, and Herefordshire and Worcestershire when they are involved in your health or social care.
For more information on how your data is used on the Integrated Care Record and how to exercise your rights please see the full Privacy Notice or copy and paste this link https://www.happyhealthylives.uk/our-priorities/digital-transformation/integrated-care-record/privacy-notice/
“Personal data is shared with information governance-compliant organisations to search and identify individuals entitled to health care in the community, recommended by NHSE, but not provided by practices.”
3.5.2022