620 Longbridge Road
Dagenham
Essex RM8 2AJ
Tel: 0203 668 7497
Fax: 0844 4778562
How we use your personal information
The health care professionals who provide you with care, maintain records about your health and any treatment or care you have received previously (e.g. Hospital, GP Surgery, Walk-in clinic, etc.). These records help to provide you with the best possible healthcare.
NHS health records may be electronic, on paper or a mixture of both, and we use a combination of working practices and technology to ensure that your information is kept confidential and secure. Records which this GP Practice holds about you may include the following information;
Your records will be retained in accordance with the NHS Code of Practice for Records Management
To ensure you receive the best possible care, your records are used to facilitate the care you receive. Information held about you may be used to help protect the health of the public and to help us manage the NHS. Information may be used within the GP practice for clinical audit to monitor the quality of the service provided.
Some of this information will be held centrally and used for statistical purposes. Where we do this, we take strict measures to ensure that individual patients cannot be identified.
Sometimes your information may be requested to be used for research purposes – the surgery may advise you of such research opportunities but will never release any of your personal information for this purpose without obtaining your consent.
How do we maintain the confidentiality of your records?
We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only use information collected lawfully in accordance with:
Data Protection Act 2018
Human Rights Act 1998
Common Law Duty of Confidentiality
Who are our partner organisations?
We may also have to share your information, subject to strict agreements on how it will be used, with the following organisations or receive information from the following organisations:-
Access to personal information
You have a right under the Data Protection Act 2018 to request access to view or to obtain copies of what information the surgery holds about you and to have it amended should it be inaccurate. In order to request this, you need to do the following:
Change of Details
It is important that you tell the person treating you if any of your details such as your name or address have changed or if any of your details such as date of birth is incorrect in order for this to be amended. You have a responsibility to inform us of any changes so our records are accurate and up to date for you.
Notification
The Data Protection Act 2018 requires organisations to register a notification with the Information Commissioner to describe the purposes for which they process personal and sensitive information.
This information is publicly available on the Information Commissioners Office website www.ico.org.uk
The practice is registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).
Who is the data Processor?
This is the person/people or organisation that is responsible for using and recording your information. All staff at the Longbridge Practice are individual Data Processors
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
The Data Protection Officer has overall responsibility for GDPR within this area. Our designated DPO is: A Afser-Arif
The Longbridge Practice
620 Longbridge Road
Dagenham
Essex RM8 2AJ
Tel: 0203 668 7497
Fax: 0844 4778562
The Longbridge Practice
620 Longbridge Road
Dagenham
Essex RM8 2AJ
Tel: 0203 668 7497
Fax: 0844 4778562
The surgery is open Monday – Friday from 08:00am – 18.30pm
Outside these times the following can be contacted for treatment and advice:
NHS Direct – 111