Records and confidentiality

We keep personal information such as your name and address together with details of your care, to ensure that our doctors and nurses have accurate and up to date information. This information is available to all of the clinicians working at Lane End Surgery, ensuring that regardless of who you see they will all have access to your details.  

Most of our patient information is held on computer and is only available to authorised users. All personal information is confidential and the consent of individual patients is generally needed before it can be given to anyone else.  Sometimes, we may need to share information with other professionals involved in your care, but they also have a legal duty to keep it confidential.

Everyone working in the NHS has a legal duty to maintain the confidentiality of patient information. Lane End Surgery takes this very seriously. All staff are required to sign a confidentiality code of conduct when they start work at the practice. Any breach of confidentiality would result in disciplinary action being taken against the member of staff.

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