Source: https://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/help/privacy-notice.htm
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 16:18:53+00:00

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This Privacy Notice is part of our commitment to ensure that we process personal information/data fairly and lawfully.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside and Glossop. We provide a range of high quality services both within the hospital and across our local community for both adults and children.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is named as the controller of the personal information.
The Data Protection Officer’s role is to ensure that the personal data used within the Organisation is used responsibly, safely, and within the data protection laws.
Personal data is information that relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data.
Demographical information such as names, address, date of birth, telephone numbers, and next of kin.
Appointments, here at the hospital, in the community, or home visits.
Results from x-rays and blood tests etc.
Information from people who care for you and know you well, such as health professionals and relatives.
We may also have information that is personal sensitive, such as sexuality, race, your religion or beliefs, and whether you have a disabilities, allergies, or health conditions.
This information is collected in a number of different ways, via your healthcare professional, referral information provided by for GP, or directly given by you.
We also collect surveillance images/video for the prevention and detection of crime.
To support the health of the general public.
To review care provided to ensure it is of the highest standard possible.
To prepare statistics on NHS performance.
To monitor how we spend public money.
Understand more about disease risks and causes.
Develop new treatments and prevent disease.
If you see another healthcare professional, specialist or another part of the NHS, they may readily access the information they need to provide you with the best possible care.
Unless you object, we will normally share information about you with other health and social care professionals directly involved in your care so that you may receive the best quality care. For example every time you attend the hospital as a patient, we will send your GP a summary of any diagnoses, test results or treatment given.
You may be receiving care from other people as well as the NHS, for example Social Care Services. We may need to share some information about you with them so we can all work together for your benefit. We will only do this when they have a genuine need for it or we have your permission.
We will not disclose your information to any other third parties without your permission unless there are exceptional circumstances, such as when either your or somebody else’s health and safety is at risk; or the law requires us to pass on information.
We may use your details to contact you with patient satisfaction surveys relating to the services you have used. This is to improve the quality of healthcare we deliver to you.
We process information on staff members in order to fulfil a contract of employment, the information is protected the same as patient information.
We only transfer information with companies whose purposes for processing match ours. It is rare that personal information is processed outside of the NHS.
No personal information is sent outside of the European Union.
It is important that we keep your information safe, secure, and available only to those who are involved in your care. To do this we restrict access using technology.
Everyone working for the Organisation is subject to the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality and the General Data Protection Regulation (2016). Information provided in confidence will only be used for your treatment unless there are other circumstances when we will ask for your consent.
Under the NHS Confidentiality Code of Conduct, all staff are required to protect your information. All staff are required to undertake annual training in data protection, information governance, and confidentiality. In addition to this staff that access and process information on your health do so using a number of security measures including chip and PIN access to computerised medical information. Paper records are held in a secure room protected with door access controls.
We store your records and use the NHS Retention Schedule to determine how long we keep these records. The length of time is determined on the type and format of the record.
The Data Protection Act (1998) has been replaced by new data protection laws called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016 and Data Protection Act 2018.
These laws are very similar to the old Data Protection Act (1998), with additional rights for the data subject.
Right of access by the data subject (GDPR Art 15), often called a Subject Access Request – SAR).
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning them in a commonly used electronic format for no charge. We are required to complete this request within calendar month. Additional copies of notes may incur a fee.
The right to rectification (GDPR Art 16), people have the right for their personal information to be changed if it is found to be incorrect.
This for instance, could be because of inaccurate personal data, how a name is spelt, to change your next of kin details, or a new address.
The right to restriction of processing (GDPR Art 18), people have the right to restrict how data is collected, used, and stored relating to them.
The right to data portability (GDPR Art 20), this is closely linked with Art 15, the Right of Access to the Data Subject. You have the right to receive the personal data concerning them in a commonly used electronic format for no charge.
The right to object (GDPR Art 21), under the General Data Protection Regulation you have the right to object to us processing your information.
If we change any of the information due to a request from you, we will contact you and tell you what we have changed. In some cases upholding the rights to object, rectification, and the restriction data may affect the treatment you receive, and may make the provision of treatment or care more difficult or even unavailable. We may refuse to uphold the request. If this is the case we will inform you without undue delay, and within one month of the request.
The Organisation can only provide access to the information it holds. For instance, to see the records held by your GP you will have to contact your GP surgery.
For further information contact your Local Anti-Fraud Specialist [Neil McQueen 0161 206 1909 or 07721 237353 or neil.mcqueen@miaa.nhs.uk].
We take confidentiality very seriously, should something go wrong and your data has been compromised we will contact you, and the Information Commissioner’s Office to inform of the breach.
If the incident is part of a wider breach and it is impossible to inform all those affected personally, we will contact the media news outlets to inform people of the data breach.
If you would like to contact us or have any concerns about your care of treatment, or that of your relative we need to know about them as soon as possible, so we can take action to improve the situation.
The General Data Protection Regulation 2016 requires the Trust to lodge a notification with the Information Commissioner to describe the purposes for which we process information.
19/12/2018 Updated 'What is a Privacy Notice' section on MIAA's PG's suggestions.

References: Art 15
 Art 16
 Art 18
 Art 20
 Art 15
 Art 21