DR Kenny, Moynihan & Scott
Practice Privacy Notice
Your data, privacy and the Law.
How we use your medical records
- This practice handles medical records according to the laws on data protection and confidentiality.
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- We share medical records with health professionals who are involved in providing you with care and treatment. This is on a need to know basis and event by event.
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- Some of your data is automatically copied to the Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record.
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- We may share some of your data with the local Out of Hours Services (e.g. NDADoc)
- Data about you is used to manage national screening campaigns such as Flu, Cervical cytology and Diabetes prevention.
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- Data about you, usually de-identified, is used to manage the NHS and make payments.
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- We share information when the law requires us to do, for instance when we are inspected or reporting certain illnesses or safeguarding vulnerable people.
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- Your data is used to check the quality of care provided by the NHS.
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- We may also share medical records for medical research
New regulations come into place on 25 May 2018. the practice is currently setting objectives and working towards these.