Privacy Notice - CQC

 

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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an organisation established in English law by the Health and Social Care Act. The CQC is the regulator for English health and social care services to ensure that safe care is provided. They inspect and produce reports on all English general practices in a rolling 5 year program. 

The law allows the Practice to share identifiable patient information with CQC as well as requiring this Practice to share certain types of data with them in certain circumstances, for instance following a significant safety incident. 

For more information about the CQC see: http://www.cqc.org.uk/

1) Controller contact details

Lee Road Surgery

20 Lee Road

London

SE3 9RT
2) Data Protection Officer contact details

John Eni-Uwubame

South East London Integrated Care System
160 Tooley Street
London
SE1 2TZ
Email: gpdpo@selondonics.nhs.uk
Telephone: 02081761198
3) Purpose of the processing To meet the legal obligation to provide the Department of Health with information and reports on the status, activity and performance of NHS GP practices. This may include identifiable patient data. 
4) Lawful basis for processing

The legal basis will be 
Article 6(1)(c) “processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.” 
And 
Article 9(2)(h) “processing is necessary for the purposes of preventive 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 on the basis of Union or Member State law or pursuant to contract with a health professional and subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph 3;”
5) 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. 
6) Rights to object 

You have the right under Article 21 of the UK GDPR to object to your personal information being processed. Please contact the Practice if you wish to object to the processing of your data. You should be aware that this is a right to raise an objection which is not the same as having an absolute right to have your wishes granted in every circumstance.

GP Practices process personal data under Article 6(1)(c) on a lawful and legitimate basis where the organisation is obliged under law to comply with.

By complying with these laws, the Practice has compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms in the right to object.
7) Right to access and correct

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.
8) Retention period  The data will be retained for active use during the processing and thereafter according to NHS Policies and the law.
9)  Right to Complain. 

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, you can use this link https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-protection-complaints/

or calling their helpline Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate) 
There are National Offices for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, (see ICO website).