Your data matters to us within the surgery and via our website. It is also important that your information is up-to-date.
Sharing Your Medical Records
Patient medical data is often shared between GP surgeries and other health providers, in order to give clinicians access to the most up-to-date information when attending to patients.
The systems we operate at Ivy Court Surgery require that any sharing of medical information is consented to by patients beforehand. Patients must consent to share the data held by a health provider with other health providers and must also consent to which of the other providers can access their data.
e.g. it may be necessary to share data held in GP practices with district nurses but the local podiatry department would not need to see it to undertake their work. In this case, patients would allow the surgery to share their data, they would allow the district nurses to access it but they would not allow access by the podiatry department. In this way access to patient data is under patients’ control and can be shared on a ‘need to know’ basis.
Patient medical data may also be shared with other organisations to support health, care planning and research.
If you do not want your personally identifiable patient data to be shared outside of your GP practice for purposes except your own care, you can register an opt-out.
More information about the National Data Opt-out can be found at https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/ or you can request to opt out here.
Collecting GP Data
Collecting GP data – advice for the public – NHS Digital
NHS Digital’s improved collection of GP data will support vital health and care planning and research. Here we explain how and why you data is being used, and what to do if you don’t want your data shared.