Green Practice - Stockbridge Health Centre

Green Practice

Stockbridge Health Centre

1 India Pl, Edinburgh, EH3 6EH

GDPR - Privacy Notice for Patients

This is a specific Privacy Notice for Patients registered with The Green Practice, Stockbridge Health Centre and sets out the headings required under the General Data Protection Act (GDPR)

What we need

The Green Practice (Drs Sayers, Reid, Richards, Martin, Lamb, and Gilson) will be a 'controller' of the personal information that you provide us when you register with the practice. We will ask you the following personal information:

Name, date of birth, gender, title, address, telephone number, next of kin, birth place, mother's maiden name, previous GP etc;

We will also ask you for some medical information e.g. smoking status, alcohol intake, past medical history, childhood vaccination history etc;

Why we need your personal information

We need to collect your personal and past medical information so that we can provide the best possible care for you as a patient in the practice.

Who we share your personal information with

We may be required to share personal/medical information with secondary care colleagues or colleagues in the primary care sector if we feel it is clinically appropriate to refer you;

If we need to refer you to secondary care colleagues or colleagues in the primary care sector, we will inform you in advance of doing so;

If a Court Order is presented, we would be obliged to share your personal/medical information with Police Scotland/Scottish Courts;

Any other requests received asking for information from your records i.e. insurance companies/solicitors etc. will only be shared with your explicit written consent.

How we protect your personal information

Your personal/medical information is stored in paper form (prior to 2004) in a locked filing room and in electronic form (Vison/Docman) on the practice IT system which is controlled and protected by NHS Lothian.

Your rights

Your rights in relation to your personal/medical information are:

You have a right to request access to the personal/medical information that we hold about you by making a 'subject access request'. Please see request forms below:

If you believe that any of your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, you have a right to request that we correct or complete the information;

You have a right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information for specific purposes, and

If you wish us to delete your personal/medical information, you may request that we do so;

Any requests received by The Green Practice will be considered under applicable data protection legislation. If you remain dissatisfied, you have a right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office at www.ico.org.uk