PRIVACY NOTICE FOR PATIENTS OF ALISON BATTERSBY PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES LTD
Why we collect and process your personal data
Alison Battersby Psychiatric Services Ltd is a registered data controller. This privacy notice sets out our privacy policy.
We collect and process patients’ personal data for the purposes of healthcare and medico-legal reports.
Our legal bases for processing personal data for healthcare purposes, including appointment reminders, include public task or legitimate interests.
Our condition for processing special category data is the provision of health or social care.
The data we may collect and process
The personal data of patients that we may collect and process includes:
- Your name, contact details and personal identifiers (such as date of birth and NHS number).
- Your general and mental health information including details of medications.
- If for medico-legal reports, information relating to your case for which you have consented to the release eg legal documents and GP records.
How we hold and share your personal data
We process your personal data in strict confidence. We keep your personal data securely in our filing and electronic systems. Patient records are only disclosed with your consent but medication recommendations cannot safely be made without the involvement of your GP.
We will usually keep any personal data we hold about you for ten years after our last contact with you before we delete it.
In the course of processing your personal data we may share it with:
Your rights
You have legal rights in respect of the personal data we hold about you. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance on the full range of rights. The rights that are most relevant to the way in which we use your personal data include:
- The right to be informed about how we use personal data – this privacy notice gives that information
- The right to object – if you object to us processing your data for healthcare purposes where our legal basis is legitimate interests (see ‘why we collect and process your personal data’, above), we will then stop doing so, unless we are processing the data in respect of a legal claim or can otherwise show that our legitimate interest in processing the data overrides your rights and interests
- The right of access – if you ask us for the personal data we hold about you we will provide it within a month, free of charge (unless we have already provided it to you, in which case we may have to charge you the administrative cost of providing it again).
- The right to rectification – if you ask us to correct personal data about you that is inaccurate or incomplete, we will do so within a month (unless we need longer, in which case we will discuss this with you)
- The right to erasure – also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’. If you ask us to delete your personal data, we will do so if there is no compelling reason to continue processing the data. We will not usually delete healthcare data before our usual time limit (see ‘how we hold and share your personal data’ above) where we have a duty to keep accurate records – for example, to comply with a legal obligation, or in connection with a legal claim. If you ask us to delete such data we will discuss this with you
Contacting us and the ICO about your personal data
Please speak to us first if you have any questions or concerns about the way in which we process personal data. You have the right to complain to the ICO if you have a concern about our handling of your personal data which you do not think we can resolve. You can contact the ICO at https//ico.org.uk/concerns/
25th May 2018