Elmham Surgery and Swanton Morley Nurse-Led Surgery

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Your Records are Safe with us

Your medical records are used to help the National Health Service (NHS) to provide you with the best possible care.

• giving you health care and treatment  

• looking after the health of the general public

• managing and planning the NHS. For example:

• making sure that our services can meet patient needs in the future

• paying your doctor, nurse, dentist, or other staff, and the hospital which

• treats you for the care they provide

• auditing accounts

• preparing statistics on NHS performance and activity (where steps will be taken to ensure you cannot be identified)

• investigating complaints or legal claims

• helping staff to review the care they provide to make sure it is of the highest standard

• training and educating staff (but you can choose whether or not to be involved personally)

• research approved by the Local Research Ethics Committee. (If anything to do with the research would involve you personally, you will be contacted to see if you are willing)

If you agree, your relatives, friends and carers will be kept up to date with the progress of your treatment.

If at anytime you would like to know more about how we use your

information you can speak to the person in charge of your care or contact The Management Team on 01362 668215.

 

Patient Information

The Protection and Use of Patient Information

We ask you for information so that you can receive proper care and treatment.  We keep this information, together with details of your care, because it may be needed if we see you again. We may use some of this information for other reasons: for example, to help us protect the health of the public generally and to see that the NHS runs efficiently, plans for the future, trains its staff, pays its bills and can account for its actions.

Information may also be needed to help educate tomorrow’s clinical staff and to carry out medical and other health research for the benefit of everyone.

Sometimes the law requires us to pass on information: for example, to notify a birth. 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.

You have a right of access to your health records

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE NHS HAS A LEGAL DUTY TO KEEP INFORMATION ABOUT YOU CONFIDENTIAL.

Elmham Surgery treats all personal information it holds about its patients as confidential.  However, the Surgery works closely with a number of statutory external agencies including Social Services and other allied professionals such as midwifery, health visitors and community nursing and in exceptional circumstances, where necessary for the medical wellbeing or safety of patients, personal information may be shared between Elmham Surgery and these other agencies.  Where practicable such disclosures may be discussed with those concerned.

Anyone who receives information from us is also under a legal duty to

keep it confidential.

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