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The NHS asks you for information
about yourself so that you can receive proper
care and treatment. This information is kept
together with details of your care, because
it may be needed if you are seen again.
The NHS may use some of this information
for other reasons for example:
- to help improve the health of the public generally
- to see that the NHS runs efficiently
- to plan for the future
- to train NHS staff
- to pay bills
- to carry out medical and other health research
for the benefit of everyone
Everyone working for the
NHS has a legal duty to keep information
Sometimes the law requires
the NHS to pass on information: for example,
to notify a birth. The NHS Central Register
for England and Wales contains basic personal
details of all patients registered with
a general practitioner. The register does
not contain clinical information.
You may be receiving care
and treatment from other organisations as
well as the NHS. In these circumstances
it may be necessary to share some information
about you so that you receive the best possible
treatment.
We only ever use or pass
on information about you if people have
a genuine need for it in your and everyone's
interests. Whenever we can we shall remove
details which identify you. The sharing
of some types of very sensitive personal
information is strictly controlled by law.
If your doctor is requested
to report information to external agencies
such as solicitors or insurance companies,
he/she will only do so with your explicit
consent.
Anyone who receives information
from us is also under a legal duty to keep
it confidential.
If at any time you would
like to know more about how we use your
information you can speak to the surgery's
practice manager or write to: The
Director of Public Health, West Sussex,
PCT, The Causeway, Goring by Sea, BN12 6BT.
You have a right of access to your
health records.
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