Both your paper and computer records are confidential. We comply with the Data Protection Act 1998, which lays down legal requirements for computer users such as ourselves.
We only ever use or pass on information about you if people have a genuine need for it, e.g. in making clinical referrals. Anyone who receives information from us is also under a legal duty to keep it confidential.
Sometimes the law requires us to pass on information, e.g. to notify a birth or when we encounter infectious diseases which may endanger the safety of others.
Data may be gathered for audit purposes and in development of medical care or other NHS services. Everyone working for the NHS has a legal duty to keep information about you confidential. The Caldicott Guardian (the person responsible for confidentiality of medical information) for this Practice is Dr Mansfield.
You have a right of access to your health records, but in certain circumstances the Data Protection Act allows the practitioner to withhold access to patient health records. If you wish to obtain access to your records please put your request in writing to the Practice Manager.