Your Data, Privacy, and the Law

How we use your medical records

Benim Medical Centre handles medical records according to the laws on Data Protection and Confidentiality. We share medical records with health professionals who are involved in providing you with care and treatment. This is on a need to know basis and event by event. Some of your data is automatically copied to the Shared Care Summary Record. We may also share some of your data with local out of hours / urgent or emergency care service. Data about you is used to manage national screening campaigns such as Flu, Cervical cytology and Diabetes prevention. Data about you, usually de-identified and is used to manage the NHS and make payments.

We share information when the law requires us to do, for instance when we are inspected, reporting certain illnesses or safeguarding vulnerable people. Your data is used to check the quality of care provided by the NHS. We may also share medical records for medical research.

You can view our Privacy Notices using the following links 

Privacy Notice - Research

Privacy Notice - Payments

Privacy Notice - NHS Digital

Privacy Notice - Public Health

Privacy Notice - Safeguarding

Privacy Notice - Summary Care Record

Privacy Notice - Care Quality Commission

Privacy Notice - Direct Care – Emergencies

Privacy Notice - National screening programs

Privacy Notice - Direct Care, (routine care and referrals)

Privacy Notice - Commissioning, Planning, Risk Stratification, Patient
Identification