Confidentiality Policy

The practice complies with data protection and access to medical records legislation.

Identifiable information about you will be shared with others in the following circumstances:

• To provide further medical treatment for you e.g. from district nurses and hospital services.
• To help you get other services e.g. from the social work department. This requires your consent.
• When we have a duty to others e.g. in child protection cases anonymised patient information will also be used at local and national level to help the health board and government plan services e.g. for diabetic care.

If you do not wish anonymous information about you to be used in such a way, please let us know.

Staff members at Claremont Medical Centre must access to your medical records in order to do complete their administration tasks. These members of staff are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the clinicians.

The practice is registered under the Data Protection Act.