Your GP is responsible for the safekeeping of your medical record. You can help to keep it accurate by informing us, in writing, of any change in your name, address, telephone number or marital status, and by ensuring that we have full details of important medical history.
If you move to another area or change to a GP of another Practice, your medical records will be sent to the local Health Authority, to be passed to your new Practice.
You have a right to keep your personal health information confidential between you and your doctor. Information given either to doctors, nurses, or receptionists will be treated as confidential, and will not be divulged to others (including other members of the family) without the patient's permission. This applies to everyone over the age of 16 years and in certain cases to those under 16.
See also section 'Referral Information'.
Fuller details of our code of confidentiality are displayed on notice boards at both Medical Centres.
The Government assures us that no clinical details are going to be loaded onto the central spine other than in a few designated trial areas and we are not one of them. Demographic details, (name, age, address gender, etc) are already held centrally, as has always been the case with paper records.