A hub page for GDPR information has now been launched on the BMA website. This provides information on the regulation and hosts a suite of resources and blogs to help guide members. This page will be updated regularly as new guidance is published and more GP focussed information and resources...
Following reviews of NHS data security by the CQC and Dame Fiona Caldicott, it has been announced that finally the much criticised care.data programme has been scrapped. This was a data sharing programme launched in 2013 that was halted in February 2014 following public outcry. Practices were...
GP practices must comply with the national data opt-out policy by March 2020. Please see below a link to the NHS Digital website which provides guidance for practices on what they need to do to and how to provide patients with appropriate...
Kent Local Medical Committee Data Privacy Notice
Plain English description
Under the current Act, NHS England and the Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) are required to consult the LMC on a wide range of topics affecting GPs' contracts.
The LMC represents the views of the...
DOH guidance on the confidentiality of information held by contractors - referred to collectively in this document as 'contractors' - who provide General Medical Services (GMS), Personal Medical Services (PMS) and Alternative Provider Medical Services...
Paul Cundy from the BMA has put a lot of work into producing Blogs for Practices and templates, but has had difficulty getting them onto the BMA website. So he has sent us an email which says:
"At the bottom of this mail you will see a link to share in my GDPR Dropbox. This is my offering to...
Kent LMC Office has been contacted by Practices expressing concern about requests for information from HM Courts and Tribunals attracting the small fee of £17.00.
After discussing this with our local office from HM Courts and Tribunals Service in Sutton we can confirm this is the correct fee...
Information Commissioner's Office CCTV code of practice - online edition 2014:
https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1542/cctv-code-of-practice.pdf
When a child is adopted do I have to go through the medical record to delete all references to the previous surname?
Following lengthy discussions with the Department of Health Solicitors, the NHS Central Registration Department have been adivsed that there is no statutory requirement for...
A child is defined as Under 18 by the Children's Act 1989
We are often asked if a parent can have access to their child's medical record when there is a clearly a dispute with the other parent.
Anyone with 'Parental Responsibility' can apply to access a child's record.
Who has Parental...
British Medical Association/NHS Connecting for Health Joint Guidance on Protecting Electronic Patient Information
There has been much recent media attention around risks to personal data, which is understandable at a time when increasing amounts of data, on many aspects of our lives, are held...
This document sets out standards required for the management of NHS records:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/records-management-nhs-code-of-practice
Communicating with patients by text message: Advice from the Medical Protection Society (MPS)
15 May 2015
Summary
Text messaging allows practices to target and contact hundreds of patients within minutes. Patients can respond by text with replies automatically forwarded to a specified email...
Social Media Guidance
More and more people are using social media as their main form of communication and way of receiving news and information. This can be advantageous to practices as it can be used to promote services and get messages out to patients, but it also comes with many potential...
Guidance is available from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (formerly NHS Connecting for Health) to support practices implementing Summary Care Records (SCRs). The GPC, RCGP and BMA were fully involved in commenting on the guidance to ensure it aligns with professional...
