How the Practice uses Personal Health Information (Data Protection Act)

White Rose Medical Centre is registered under the Data Protection Act to hold patient records in both paper and computer formats. We have procedures in place to ensure that confidentiality and security of this information is safeguarded at all times.

We ask you for information about yourself so that you can receive the best possible care and treatment. We keep this information, together with details of your care, to ensure that the health professionals involved in your care have up-to-date and accurate information that may be needed when we see you again.

We may use some of this information to give you health care and treatment, to help us protect the health of the general public, to manage and plan the NHS, to train staff and to review standards of care. There are times when we have to pass on information about you to other people such as hospitals, Social Services or the Health Authority. We only use or pass information about you if there is a genuine need for it in your and everyone’s interests. This is always done confidentially or by removing your identifying details when they are not essential.

The NHS Central Register for England & Wales contains basic personal details of all patients registered with a general practitioner. The Register does not contain clinical information.