Privacy: GP Connect

GP Connect is a service that allows information and the GP Patient Record to be viewed and shared between IT systems. This allows authorised clinical staff from different healthcare settings to share and view clinical information held by a GP practice. The sharing of records is only for the purpose of direct care, and by medical examiners for the statutory purpose of reviewing deaths, where the patient is being treated or consulted in a setting away from their regular GP. GP Connect respects patient consent choices and will not share their data if the patient has asked their GP not to.

This will:

1. allow read only access to patients’ care records
2. allows Community Pharmacy registered professionals to send consultation summaries into the GP practice workflow (GP Connect Update Record).

Learn more about GP Connect

Controller contact details

St Paul's Cottage Surgery
114 Augustus Road
Wimbledon
London
SW19 6EW

Telephone: 0203 092 2556

Data Protection Officer contact details

swl.gpdpo@swlondon.nhs.uk

Purpose of the processing

The information that is shared is to enable the other healthcare workers to provide the most appropriate advice, investigations, treatments, therapies and/or care.

The lawfulness conditions and special categories

The processing of personal data in support of direct care elsewhere is supported under the following Article 6 and 9 conditions of the UK GDPR: Article 6(1)(d) ‘processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person’. Article 6(1)(e) ‘…necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority…’. Article 9(2)(c) ‘processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent’. Article 9(2)(h) ‘necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...’. We will also recognise your rights established under UK case law collectively known as the “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”*. 

Recipient or categories of recipients of the shared data

The data will be shared with the Care Quality Commission, its officers and staff and members of the inspection teams that visit us from time to time.

Rights to object

You have the right to object to some or all of the information being shared. Please contact our Data Protection Officer.

Right to access and correction

You have the right to access the data that is being shared and have any inaccuracies corrected. There is no right to have accurate medical records deleted except when ordered by a court of Law.

Retention period

The data will be retained for active use during the processing and thereafter according to NHS Policies and the law.

Right to complain

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office