The NHS provides national screening programmes so that certain diseases can be detected at an early stage. The law allows us to share your contact information with NHS Scotland so that you can be invited to the relevant screening programme.
More information can be found at: www.healthscotland.scot/health-topics/screening/screening-overview or speak to the practice.
We are required by Articles in the General Data Protection Regulations to provide you with the information in the following 9 subsections.
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1) Data Controller contact details
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Dr Sean Kennedy
STEPPS SURGERY
131 Cumbernauld Road,
Stepps,
G33 6EY
0141 779 4445
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2) Data Protection Officer contact details
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Mrs Michelle Nobes
Information Governance Manager, DPO
eHealth Department
Kirklands Hospital
Fallside Road
Bothwell, G71 8BB
01698 858079
michelle.nobes@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
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3) Purpose of the processing
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The NHS provides several national health screening programs to detect diseases or conditions earlier such as; cervical and breast cancer, aortic aneurysm and diabetes. More information can be found at www.healthscotland.scot/health-topics/screening/screening-overview The information is shared so as to ensure only those who should be called for screening are called and or those at highest risk are prioritised.
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4) Lawful basis for processing
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The sharing is to support Direct Care which is covered under
Article 6(1)(e); “necessary… in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller’
And
Article 9(2)(h) ‘necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...”
We will also recognise your rights established under UK case law collectively known as the “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”*
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5) Recipient or categories of recipients of the processed data
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This data will be shared with NHS Lanarkshire screening services, and NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Screening Services, SCCRS, SIRS, Information Services Scotland.
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6) Rights to object
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You have the right to object to this processing of your data and to some or all of the information being shared with the recipients. Contact the Data Controller or the practice. For national screening programmes: you can opt so that you no longer receive an invitation to a screening programme.
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7) Right to access and correct
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You have the right to access the data that is being shared and have any inaccuracies corrected. There is no right to have accurate medical records deleted except when ordered by a court of Law.
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8) Retention period
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The data will be retained in line with the law and national guidance.
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9) Right to Complain.
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You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, you can use this link ico.org.uk/global/contact-us
or call their helpline Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)
The Information Commissioner’s National Offices for Scotland is at
45 Melville Street,
Edinburgh
EH3 7HL
0303 123 1115
scotland@ico.org.uk
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* “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”, common law is not written out in one document like an Act of Parliament. It is a form of law based on previous court cases decided by judges; hence, it is also referred to as 'judge-made' or case law. The law is applied by reference to those previous cases, so common law is also said to be based on precedent.
The general position is that if information is given in circumstances where it is expected that a duty of confidence applies, that information cannot normally be disclosed without the information provider's consent.
In practice, this means that all patient information, whether held on paper, computer, visually or audio recorded, or held in the memory of the professional, must not normally be disclosed without the consent of the patient. It is irrelevant how old the patient is or what the state of their mental health is; the duty still applies.
Three circumstances making disclosure of confidential information lawful are:
- where the individual to whom the information relates has consented;
- where disclosure is in the public interest; and
- where there is a legal duty to do so, for example a court order.