Our Mission
Data Protection
Data Protection Act 1998
We are committed to meeting the provision of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Everyone working in this hospital has a legal duty to keep information about you confidential.
In summary, this means that:
- We will ask for information about yourself so that you can receive the proper care and treatment required.
- We keep this information securely with details of your care because it may be needed when we see you again.
- We will use some of this information for other reasons, for example, to plan for the future, to see that the hospital runs legally and effectively and can account for its actions, and to make sure we can pay the staff who look after you and for the facilities needed for your care.
Sometimes the law requires us to pass on information, for example to notify a birth.
You have a right of access to your health records.
You may be receiving care from other people as well as employees of this hospital. So that we can all work together for your benefit, we may need to share some information about you with those people. This may include using your information for clinical audit and quality monitoring purposes.
Whenever we can, we shall remove details that identify you. The sharing of some types of very sensitive personal information is strictly controlled by law.
