Oldwell Surgery

10 Front Street, Winlaton, NE21 4RD Tel: 0191 500 2023

Your NHS Data Matters

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As a practice, we fully respect your right as a patient to control your data. The links explain how we share data with other providers, including the Great North Care Record and NHS Digital for secondary use.

You have the right to opt-out at any time from data being shared.

Your data is used in broadly two different ways:

  1. To provide you with care. This is called “Primary Use“
  2. To allow for planning and research to be done. This is called “Secondary Use“

Both uses will only be made where it is considered secure and appropriate to use patient data.

Opting-out of data sharing is an option for all patients, however it is not without potential downsides. For Primary Use data, if you opt-out and need care in a local hospital, for example, it may be much harder for the staff to access important medical information about you needed to provide safe and effective care. For Secondary Use, the downsides are more indirect. If everyone in the country were to opt-out, it would make it much harder to ensure funding is used in the NHS to develop services where they are needed. It would also be harder to develop new treatments.

Any choice you make will not impact your individual care. Please click on the link to find out more and opt out if you wish to do so or you can call 0300 3035678.

https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/

The NHS Digital Privacy Notice on the GPDPR is available here https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/general-practice-data-for-planning-and-research/gp-privacy-notice

How to manage your sharing preferences using the NHS App

You can view or change your current preference at any time.

To view and change your preference in the NHS App:

  1. Go to Your health
  2. Select Choose if data from your health and care records is shared for planning and research.
  3. Select Make your choice.
  4. Review the information on the page, then select Start now.
  5. View your preference, then select Change if you want to change it.
  6. Update your choice, then select Submit.

You can also visit www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters.

Click on the link below to access patient opt out form.

https://www.oldwellsurgery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2017/04/type-1-opt-out-form-for-patients.docx