Home About Us Get Involved Patient information Contact us Home About Us Our Responsibilities How your information is used How your information is used The Fair Processing Notice (also known as a Privacy Notice) is part of our programme to make the data processing activities we are carrying out in order to meet our commissioning obligations transparent. This notice tells you about information we collect and hold about you, what we do with it, how we will look after it and who we might share it with. This notice is not exhaustive. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any requests should be sent to this address: NHS Berkshire West CCG 57 - 59 Bath Road Reading Berkshire RG30 2BA Tel: 0118 950 3094 Supplementary privacy note on COVID-19 for Patients/Service Users This notice describes how we may use your information to protect you and others during the COVID-19 outbreak. It supplements our main Privacy Notice. The health and social care system is facing significant pressures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Health and care information is essential to deliver care to individuals, to support health and social care services and to protect public health. Information will also be vital in researching, monitoring, tracking and managing the outbreak. In the current emergency it has become even more important to share health and care information across relevant organisations. Existing law which allows confidential patient information to be used and shared appropriately and lawfully in a public health emergency is being used during this outbreak. Any information used or shared during the COVID-19 outbreak will be limited to the period of the outbreak unless there is another legal basis to use the data. Further information is available on gov.uk here and some FAQs on this law are available here. The Department of Health served a notice in March 2020 under Regulation 3(4) of the Health Service Control of Patient Information Regulations 2002 (COPI) to process confidential patient information insofar as the purpose related to the outbreak of COVID-19. With the continuing COVID-19 situation the notice was extended, most recently on 27 August 2021 to last until 31 March 2022. During this period of emergency, opt-outs will not generally apply to the data used to support the COVID-19 outbreak, due to the public interest in sharing information. This includes National Data Opt-outs. However in relation to the Summary Care Record, existing choices will be respected. Where data is used and shared under these laws your right to have personal data erased will also not apply. It may also take us longer to respond to Subject Access requests, Freedom of Information requests and new opt-out requests whilst we focus our efforts on responding to the outbreak. In order to look after your health and care needs we may share your confidential patient information including health and care records with clinical and non clinical staff in other health and care providers, for example neighbouring GP practices, hospitals and NHS 111. We may also use the details we have to send public health messages to you, either by phone, text or email. During this period of emergency we may offer you a consultation via telephone or video-conferencing. By accepting the invitation and entering the consultation you are consenting to this. Your personal/confidential patient information will be safeguarded in the same way it would with any other consultation. We will also be required to share personal/confidential patient information with health and care organisations and other bodies engaged in disease surveillance for the purposes of protecting public health, providing healthcare services to the public and monitoring and managing the outbreak. Further information about how health and care data is being used and shared by other NHS and social care organisations in a variety of ways to support the COVID-19 response is here. NHS England and Improvement and NHS Digital have developed a single, secure store to gather data from across the health and care system to inform the COVID-19 response. This includes data already collected by NHS England, NHS Improvement, Public Health England and NHS Digital. New data will include 999 call data, data about hospital occupancy and A&E capacity data as well as data provided by patients themselves. All the data held in the platform is subject to strict controls that meet the requirements of data protection legislation. In such circumstances where you tell us you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms we may need to collect specific health data about you. 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