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PRIVACY NOTICE

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Our pharmacists and their staff are members of your local healthcare team.

They aim to provide you with the highest quality of healthcare. To do this they need to keep records about you, your health and the care we have provided or plan to provide to you.

We know that you value your privacy and the security of personal information held about you.

Information recorded
As part of providing a professional, safe and efficient service, there is certain information that we record. This includes details of drugs and appliances dispensed against NHS prescriptions as well as significant advice given, and referrals made to other health professionals and any other relevant information.
Information recorded may include:

  • basic details about you, such as address, date of birth, next of kin;

  • records of medicines you have been prescribed by your doctor or another qualified prescriber, and which have been supplied by this pharmacy;

  • details of medicines purchased from the pharmacy without a prescription (“over the counter medicines”);

  • other details and notes about your health and medical treatment;

  • information relevant to your continued care from other people who care for you and know you well, such as other health professionals and relatives; and

  • any other services we provide to you, for example, a flu vaccination.


Processing Information
We process your personal data, which includes information from your prescriptions and any other pharmacy and health care services we provide to you (including medicines use reviews, flu vaccinations, stop smoking services etc.) for the purposes of:
Your care – providing pharmacy services and care to you and sharing your information with your GP and others in the wider NHS, as appropriate;
Our payments – sharing your information with the NHS Business Services Authority, others in the wider NHS, and sometimes Local Authorities, and only relevant information to those external to the NHS who negotiate and check the accuracy of our payments; and,
Management – sharing only relevant information with the NHS Business Services Authority
and others in the wider NHS, and sometimes Local Authorities; as well as those external to the NHS who ensure we maintain appropriate professional and service standards and that your declarations and ours are accurate.
We hold your information for as long as advised by the NHS.

Your Rights
You have the right to confidentiality under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the common law duty of confidence (the Equality Act may also apply).
We also comply with the NHS Code of Practice on Confidentiality and pharmacists have a requirement under their professional standards to keep records about you confidential, secure and accurate.
All of our staff contracts of employment contain a requirement to keep patient information confidential.

Our guiding principle is that we process your records in strict confidence.

Your right to view your health record
You have the right to ask for a copy of all pharmacy records about you.
Generally, there will be no charge for a printed copy of the information we hold about you. We are required to respond to your request within one month.
You will need to give adequate information in order for pharmacy staff to identify you (for example, full name, address and date of birth). You will be required to provide ID, for example.

Cookies
​We use standard technology called 'cookies' on this website. A cookie is a small data file that is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser when you access a website.

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Cookies

Please read this carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Privacy & Cookie Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of Our Site. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using Our Site immediately.

Cookies enable us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and to show us the most popular areas of our website. They allow us to enrich your experience of using the website and make it more user friendly.

Please note: cookies DO NOT contain confidential or personally identifiable information such as your home address, telephone number or credit card details. Our site will not work without cookies.

The cookie settings on this website are set to 'allow all cookies' to give you the very best experience. If you continue without changing these settings, you consent to this - but if you want, you can change your settings at any time (see below: Removing and Disabling Cookies).

​Most browsers automatically accept cookies. If you don’t want us to place cookies on your computer at all, you can set your browser to disable or reject them. This will mean that no website will be able to place cookies on your computer. You can do this by adjusting the preferences within your browser. See www.allaboutcookies.org for further details on how to do this for most browsers.

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The national data opt-out

The opt-out system allows patients to directly express their opt-out preference about whether health and care organisations can process that patient’s personal identifiable information where the only reason (or basis) is:

  • Research or planning purposes, e.g. to find ways to improve treatments or using data use to improve the delivery of health services.

Patients will be able to find more information or express their opt-out preference by:

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