Privacy: Patient Registrations 

The Practice is working with Healthtech-1 to automate patient registrations. This ensures we can register patients fast and avoids any manual data errors.

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 used to support patient registrations and deliver care to patients.

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 Healthtech-1 to support the administrative activities within the Practice.

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