As a registered patient, North Preston Medical Practice has a legal duty to explain how we use any personal information we collect about you at the organisation. We collect records about your health and the treatment you receive in both electronic and paper format.
We are required to provide you with this privacy notice by law. It provides information about how we use the personal and healthcare information we collect, store, and hold about you.
The main things the law says we must tell you about what we do with your personal data are:
- We must let you know why we collect personal and healthcare information about you.
- We must let you know how we use any personal and/or healthcare information we hold about you.
- We need to inform you in respect of what we do with it.
- We need to tell you about who we share it with or pass it on to and why.
- We need to let you know how long we can keep it for
A privacy notice (or ‘fair processing notice’) explains the information we collect about our patients and how it is used. Being open and providing clear information to patients about how an organisation uses their personal data is an essential requirement of the new UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR).