黑料网 collects information about you when you are referred by your GP for treatment and during your clinical consultation. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys, provide feedback and speak to a member of our team.
As a healthcare provider we need to hold information about our patients to help ensure that they receive proper, necessary and effective treatment. We firmly believe that information should be held securely and should only be available on a 鈥榥eed to know鈥 basis. The information includes:
We want to make sure we give you the best care we can. To help us do that we need keep some information about you. Below is guidance to information collected, held and used by us when you are a Patient.听
The information we keep about you:
We are responsible for:
We will not share any information about you, unless:
The people who care for you use your information to:
They may also need to use information about you to:
We may need to share your information with our partners. If we need to, we will ask you if we can and will only share it if you say 鈥測es鈥.
These organisations include:
Sharing your information for your care
If other organisations are caring for you, or about to start caring for you, we may need to share your health information with them. We will only do this when this will help you.
Sharing could be to social services or private healthcare organisations.
Where we can, we will try to ask you if it is ok to do this.
There may be times when we need to share this information without asking. This may be because we are not able to ask you or because it needs to be done quickly to help you.
We have trained people who can help you decide how to share your information and only when it is in your best interests.
You can tell us when you do not want your information shared. This could be with your parents, carers or others. If you tell us not to share your information, we will make sure we don鈥檛 wherever we can. We will only share your information if the law tells us we have to.
You can ask for a copy of your information on paper or electronically (email). You should ask for your information in writing (email or letter) and include your full name, address, birthday, and the number known as the NHS number.
As well as asking for copies of your information, you can also ask:
To access your record, you or a parent/guardian can contact:
Medical Records Manager
Medical Records Department
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Odstock Road
Odstock
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If you think any of your information is not correct or you do not want us to share your information, make sure you let us know.
The Data Protection Officer is available by post at the address above, or by email: sft.information.governance@nhs.net or by telephone: 01722 336262.
You can get the above information in other languages and formats. If you would like a copy, please call 01722 429044 or email sft.pals@nhs.net.
We have a duty to:
If we hold information about you as a patient you have the right to:
1. Be informed:
Individuals, which include patients and staff, have the right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal data.
2. Right of access
You have the right to find out what information we hold about you as a member of staff or as a patient. This is called a right of access. You exercise this right by asking us for a copy of the information we hold about you.
We are required to supply this information to you within 30 calendar days from the date the Trust received the request.
We are required to supply this information to you within 30 calendar days from the date the Trust received the request. However, the Trust may extend this period if the request is deemed to be excessive or complex. In this instance, the Trust will write to inform you of the extension and revised response date.
How to make a request for copies or access to your information:
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Legal documents and reports |
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sft.information.governance@nhs.net 听01722 336262 x 5716 & 5731 |
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Occupational Health Services & Counselling |
3. The right to get your data corrected
You have the right to have any inaccurate personal information about you corrected within 30 calendar days month.
You can make this request verbally and in writing.
In certain circumstances the Trust can refuse the request for rectification. The Trust will inform you of the decision and explain why.
4. Your right to get your personal information deleted
You have the right to ask the Trust to delete any personal information we hold about you in certain circumstances. This is known as the 鈥榬ight to be forgotten鈥.
This right is not absolute and can only apply in certain circumstances.
You don鈥檛 have to ask a specific person within the hospital. We do recommend that you follow up any verbal requests in writing by contacting the Trust鈥檚 Data Protection Officer explaining your concerns, providing evidence and stating your desired solution.
In certain circumstances the Trust can decline the request for deletion. The Trust will inform you of the decision and explain why.
5. Right to limit how we use your information
You can limit the way the hospital uses your personal data if you are concerned about the accuracy of the data or how it is being used.
In certain circumstances you can make a request for the hospital to limit the use of your personal information. This could include:
The Trust may refuse a request to limit the use of your information if we believe that your request is unfounded or excessive. We won鈥檛 do this without letting you know and if your request is 鈥榤anifestly unfounded鈥. We may ask for a reasonable fee to cover administration costs.
Where the law demands The Trust will be unable to prevent your data being shared. If this is the case, we will inform you of the legislation which permits this.
6. Right to data portability
You have a right to get your personal information from the hospital in an accessible format, paper, electronic or CSV file.
You can also ask the hospital to transfer your electronic information to another healthcare provider if it is technically feasible.
How long will you need to wait for my data to be transferred?
The hospital has one month to respond to your request. We may need extra time to consider your request and this may take up to two months, but we will let you know.
If an external clinician requires your healthcare information, a synopsis or copy of the record will be released to the responsible clinician to support your ongoing care.
7. Right to object
You have the right to object to the use of your information in some circumstances.
Your request can be verbal or in writing. We recommend that you follow up any verbal requests in writing by contacting the Trust鈥檚 Data Protection Officer explaining your request.
At a national level, you can restrict the use of your healthcare data. Please refer to the National Data Guardian Opt-Out information on the Trust website.
8. Rights relating to decisions made about you by a computerised system.
Automated decisions
This is called automated decision making and profiling for example, completing an online aptitude test using a pre-programmed algorithm and or criteria when applying for a job vacancy with the hospital.
You can ask for information to understand the reasons behind the automated decisions. The request can be made verbally or in writing. We recommend that you follow up any verbal requests in writing by contacting the Trust鈥檚 Data Protection Officer explaining your request.
Profiling
Profiling means information about you is used to analyse or predict things like:
You can object to the collection of profiling information if it includes direct marketing.
It will take the hospital a month to respond to your request, but in certain circumstances, we may need more time which can take up to an extra two months. We will let you know within the 30 days if it might take longer.
Exercising you rights by objecting to your data being shared, processed by automated means, or are requesting your data to be erased, restricted, corrected
If you are exercising your rights under the Data Protection Legislation by asking for your data to be restricted, erased, corrected or updated, or you are objecting to our processing of your data, to automated decision-making or would like a human to review any automated decision-making to which you are subject, these requests will be handled by the Trust Data Protection Officer directly and a response issued within one month. Please write to the contact details given to you when we collected the data, or to the contact details.
Raising a concern
You have a right to be confident that the hospital handles your personal information responsibly and securely.
If you would like to speak to someone, about any concerns you may have please call the Information Governance Office 01722 336262 or the Trust鈥檚 Data Protection Officer.
You can also seek advice from or make a complaint to the Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office (ICO) who is the UK data protection regulator.
As a healthcare provider we access your healthcare information to provide direct care in accordance with Articles 6 and 9 of the EU General Data Protection Regulations and Data Protection Act 2018.
The information we hold about you helps us to:
We may also use your information to:
Specialist Cancer Drug Funding:
The Specialist Cancer Drug Funding procedures require 黑料网 to submit patient information to NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHS E & I) on the prior approval system (currently Blueteq) to obtain funding for specialist drugs.
These procedures have been designed to:
Who is this information shared with?
Requests for specialist cancer drugs are shared with Public Health England (PHE). This information is collected, used and shared for the purposes of public health with the aim of
For more information about Public Health England and the specialist cancer drug funding please visit:
Opting out of your information being shared with Public Health England
PHE supports patients to opt out from the cancer registration process should they wish. To support this, PHE provides all cancer centres with patient information leaflets on cancer registration. These leaflets should be made readily available to patients. If you would like to request copies of the leaflet, please email NDRengagement@phe.gov.uk or you can find more information, and access the leaflet from the National Disease Registration Service webpage
Opting out of your information being shared with Public Health England
PHE supports patients to opt out from the cancer registration process should they wish. To support this, PHE provides all cancer centres with patient information leaflets on cancer registration. These leaflets should be made readily available to patients. If you would like to request copies of the leaflet, please email NDRengagement@phe.gov.uk or you can find more information, and access the leaflet from the National Disease Registration Service webpage
The Trust uses approved specialist companies which are accredited to provide any diagnostic tests or services you might need; for example, genetic testing and specialist tests.
We work closely with many organisations in order to provide you with the best possible care. This means that with your consent, and when it is beneficial to your health or in your vital interests, your information will be shared with organisations including:
Also, where necessary and appropriate, to:
Confidential patient-identifiable information is only shared with other organisations where there is a legal basis for it as follows:
Health professionals should share information in the best interests of their patients. This means that where necessary we will also share your health information with other health care providers/professionals involved in your care.
Here at 黑料网 we take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information when caring for you and to give you any products and services you have asked for.
The Trust will not disclose any information about you other than in exceptional circumstances where we are required to do so by law.
You can also get further information on:
If you are a patient seeking routine treatment and you live outside of the NHS England boarders, the Trust is required to contact your local GP practice and Local Health Board (LHB) or the National Specialised Services team responsible for your area to obtain authorisation prior to commencing your treatment. If you are planning to move outside the NHS England borders please can you confirm your new address and GP Practice with the Trust as soon as possible to ensure a continuation of care. On occasion it may be necessary for the Trust to contact you directly about your provision of care as we will be working on your behalf to ensure that the continuity of care is not adversely affected.
As a trusted Healthcare partner the 黑料网 (SFT) clinical staff have been granted read only access to a limited view of your GP electronic patient record when supporting your care. This access has been granted by the Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group (Wiltshire CCG) for the majority of GP practices who are using the TPP SystmOne electronic patient record system.
In conjunction with your GP practice we will ensure access to your GP electronic record is strictly controlled and monitored. If you wish to prevent the hospital from accessing your GP electronic record please contact your GP practice who can arrange.
The patient leaflet and responses to commonly asked questions for the TPP SystmOne electronic patient record system provides further details as to how your medical information is managed and shared. To access these, 鈥榗lick鈥 on the link below:
Health and care organisations across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire are working to improve the care our population receives through a wide reaching programme of digital transformation designed to use digital technology to provide better care for local people and use our resources in a more effective and efficient way.
Part of this digital transformation programme is focusing on the development of Integrated Care Records (ICRs).听
An ICR enables the different health and care organisations involved in an individual's care to access relevant information about them without the need to access multiple IT systems.听
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The NHS has a comprehensive set of guidelines, which govern the length of time that we may keep your records for, which are called the NHS Retention Schedules. 黑料网 will comply with the NHS Retention Schedules. There may be occasions where the Trust will be obliged to vary from the NHS Retention Schedules, for examples, in response to a Court Order or other equivalent legal requirement. Information about the NHS Retention Schedules may be found via the NHS Digital Website at:听
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The Trust uses a secure electronic patient record system which enables GPs to refer you here. You can decide whether we can give limited access to the information held within your GP record.
Our system is also used by other GP practices, child health services, community services, hospitals, out-of-hours services, palliative care services and many more. This means your information can be shared with other clinicians so that everyone caring for you is fully informed about your medical history, including medication and allergies. We will seek your consent before sharing your medical information.
Sharing out: This controls whether your information stored by us can be shared with your GP
Sharing In: This controls whether information in your medical record held by your GP can be viewed by staff on a need to know basis
If you would like to receive a copy of your medical records, report a concern or inaccuracy within your record or would like to restrict who your medical data is shared with, please speak to your clinician or contact any of the people listed below. They will be happy to help:
Information Governance听Department
C/O Informatics Department 黑料网 District Hospital SDH Central |
Ms Sandy Higdon Medical Records Manager Medical Records Department 黑料网 District Hospital |
Caldicott Guardian Mr Peter Collins Chief Medical Officer Tel: 01722 336262 |
Senior Information Risk Owner Mr Jonathan Burwell Acting Chief Digital Officer Tel: 01722 336262 |
If you would like advice or report a concern directly to the data protection and privacy and electronic regulator, you can use the contact details below:
Information Commissioner's OfficeWycliffe House Helpline: 0303 123 1113 |
NHS Digital is developing a new system to support the national data opt-out which will give you more control over how your identifiable health and care information is used. The system will offers you and the public the opportunity to make an informed choice about whether you wish your personally identifiable data to be used just for your individual care and treatment or also used for research and planning purposes.
What information does the national data opt-out apply to..?
How do you opt out?
By contacting NHS Choices website or telephone contact center:
Need more information?
Visit the National Data Opt-out web pages:
You can also use the opt-out postal service or phone the helpline to access more information: NHS Digital Contact Centre Tel: 0300 303 5678
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Whenever you use a health or care service, such as attending Accident & Emergency or using Community Care services, important information about you is collected in a patient record for that service. Collecting this information helps to ensure you get the best possible care and treatment.
The information collected about you when you use these services can also be used and provided to other organisations for purposes beyond your individual care, for instance to help with:
This may only take place when there is a clear legal basis to use this information. All these uses help to provide better health and care for you, your family and future generations. Confidential patient information about your health and care is only used like this where allowed by law.
Most of the time, anonymised data is used for research and planning so that you cannot be identified in which case your confidential patient information isn't needed.
You have a choice about whether you want your confidential patient information to be used in this way. If you are happy with this use of information you do not need to do anything. If you do choose to opt out your confidential patient information will still be used to support your individual care.
To find out more or to register your choice to opt out, please visit www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters. On this web page you will:
You can also find out more about how patient information is used at:
听 (which covers health and care research); and
听 (which covers how and why patient information is used, the safeguards and how decisions are made)
You can change your mind about your choice at any time.
Data being used or shared for purposes beyond individual care does not include your data being shared with insurance companies or used for marketing purposes and data would only be used in this way with your specific agreement.
As an early adopter of the National Data Guardian Opt Out Programme, the Trust implemented a series of internal policies and procedures in 2019 to ensure patients who have opted out of their data being used for secondary purposes is respected.
Health and care organisations have until 2020 to put systems and processes in place so they can be compliant with the national data opt-out and apply your choice to any confidential patient information they use or share for purposes beyond your individual care. Our organisation 'is / is not currently' compliant with the national data opt-out policy.
Please refer to our additional privacy notice here:
Overseas patient information may be used to?
CCTV (closed circuit television) is utilised to protect the safety of our patients, staff and members of the public.
The Trust's security services, including the use of CCTV, are managed internally.
The Trust remains the data controller of this data and any disclosures to third parties such as the Police, will only be done with the permission of the Trust.
For safety and security reasons, the Trust security personnel also wear body-worn video cameras while on duty.
Recordings will not be continuous and security staff will make an announcement if they need to turn the cameras on.
To maintain privacy and dignity, recordings will not be permitted in areas of the hospital where examinations or procedures are being undertaken or if there is likely to be nudity.
Anyone present may object to the recording but will need to show the need for privacy outweighs the need to protect the public.
The Trust collects stores and processes personal information about prospective, current and former staff to ensure compliance with legal or industry requirements.
The processing of employee personal information is necessary for the purpose of employment and social security and social protection law.
The Trust is not required to seek your explicit consent to process your personal information for employment purposes, taxation, fraud, internal and external investigations, and statutory or regulatory reporting purposes requiring identification.
How we use your employee information?
Business management and planning
Employee information and publicity
Your personal information will not be used for internal and external publications without your explicit written consent.
Sharing of employee information
The Trust will not routinely disclose any information about you without your express permission. However, in order to enable effective staff administration and comply with our obligations as your employer, we will share the information which you provide during the course of your employment (including the recruitment process) with the NHS Business Services Authority for maintaining your employment records, held on systems including the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and Care Information Services (smartcard) Systems.
There are a number of circumstances where we must or can share information about you to comply or manage with:
Disciplinary/ investigation processes; including referrals to Professional Bodies, e.g. NMC and GMC;
Employee Monitoring
The Trust鈥檚 Informatics Department is committed to maintaining the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of service users at all times. We adhere to the principles of data protection legislation, Department of Health and NHS Digital policies, procedures and codes of practice.
The Informatics Department uses your personal information to create and manage IT user accounts, monitor system access and performance.
System generated audit trails are also used to improve internal processes, identify account and system issues, and establish if inappropriate access and/or use of IT equipment/resources have occurred.
Audit trails may also be released to patients requesting details of employees who have accessed their medical record.
Registration Authority Smartcards
If you hold or register for a NHS Registration Authority (RA) Smartcard your personal information including your driving license and passport numbers will be recorded along with a photographic image within the NHS Digital鈥檚 Care Identity Service (CIS) System.
All users issued with a Smartcard have the ability to update certain aspects of their record on the CIS database as well as change their pin code and, when necessary, renew their own Smartcard certificates. (Certificates last two years and can be self-renewed within 90 days leading to the expiry date 鈥 after this time please contact your local Registration Authority).
All Informatics staff adhere to a strict code of ethics in relation to the confidentiality of all personal and sensitive data.
All personal and sensitive information is treated as sensitive (鈥榮pecial category鈥) personal data, in respect of data protection legislation and can be shared by the recipient only, with the individual鈥檚 consent and with others who have a legitimate need to know.
Your information may be released without your knowledge or consent in exceptional circumstances dictated in the professional codes of ethical behaviour and statute law i.e. the prevention and detection of a serious crime, fraud, malpractice allegation, court order or the vital interests of yourself or another (life or death).
NHS Mail
The Trust utilises the NHS Mail email system as our main communication system. As a member of staff you are accepting you will work within the NHSmail acceptable use policy v3 September 2018. This occurs when you register for the service. This is your promise to all NHSmail users and the public and patients we serve, that you will be mindful of the importance of the information that they share over NHSmail.
NHS Mail Data Retention and Information Management Policy
Information is stored in the NHSmail service for a variety of reasons and is retained in accordance with our policies. The NHSmail Data Retention and Information Management Policy this defines the scope of data held and details the recovery of data. The process to request this is available in the NHSmail Access to Data Policy on the NHSmail portal help pages.
Our responsibilities for data protection are explained in the Transparency Information document located within the General Data Protection Regulation section of the NHSmail portal help pages.
Sharing of employee information
Limited personal information about you may also be shared with third party organisations in order to permit access to externally located/hosted systems i.e. Lorenzo, and TPP SystmOne (GP system).
Secondary Purposes
The Informatics department will use your personal information to create anonymised, pseudonymised and statistical compliance reports.
External IT Monitoring
NHS Digital now provides national monitoring of all internet activity through NHS devices to local organisations such as hospitals and GP surgeries. This means that all internet activity is monitored to quickly identify any abnormalities so that immediate action can be taken to address any potential problem as quickly as possible. NHS Digital will be able to identify the affected device and user in real time so that alerts can be provided nationally and locally in order to minimise the threat to the NHS, staff and patients.
The SFT process will be that whenever an alert is received Informatics will immediately retrieve the device and commence erasing any data and rebuilding the device, please be aware that any information stored locally on the machine will be removed with immediate effect.
Appropriate action will be taken over any inappropriate or malicious breaches detected in line with the Trust policies and procedures.
NHS COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport Privacy Notice
Version 1 (黑料网-adapted) 26/01/2021
Introduction
During the current COVID-19 health emergency, various plans and projects are being implemented to help the NHS meet the unprecedented challenges and provide the best possible care to our patients. One of those challenges is ensuring that our clinical staff members are able to work where they are needed most and where their skills can be best utilised, and to reduce the administrative delays in making this happen. To enable this,staff who volunteer to participate in the scheme will be provided with a digital passport 鈥 the COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport 鈥 which summarises their clinical attributes, is verified by their current employer, and will allow them to begin working in another NHS location as quickly as possible.
What is a COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport?
If you choose to participate in in the scheme, your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport will primarily be digital in nature 鈥 although a paper version can be produced 鈥 and it will contain personal information about you. Your current employer will create the digital passport by collating information about you from their existing records, and uploading it to the COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport system. You will have full control over how your digital passport is used 鈥 as it will be accessed via a digital wallet on your smartphone (or held by you in paper form), and you choose when you wish to share it. We highly recommend that you protect your personal device with a password or biometric scan to ensure the security of your information. When you arrive at your 鈥榥ew鈥 NHS location, your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer will ask to see your digital passport and conduct a verification check with your current employer. This will reduce the need for lengthy employment checks or checks with professional regulators, to enable you to start work as soon as possible.
What data will be processed?
Only staff data which is held by your current organisation will be processed via your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport. The information collated will be the minimum necessary to populate your digital passport and will all be relevant for creating your staff profile at your next organisation. This will include:
What is the purpose of processing my data?
The information processed via your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport is all information which is currently processed by your existing employer to meet employment requirements, and is needed by your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer for those same purposes. The lawful basis for processing this information by each organisation for your employment purposes is as per the following GDPR articles:
However, user participation in the COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport scheme is entirely voluntary, and as such, the lawful basis for processing information using the Passport system can be found in the following GDPR articles:
Further information regarding the lawful basis for processing can be found on the
Who will control my data?
Your current employer is the Data Controller of the existing records which they hold about you relating to your employment, and will be the Data Controller of the information which is uploaded to the digital passport system to create your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport. As such, your current employer is the Data Controller of your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport, and will handle any Information Rights requests relating to the passport, and will be able to give you privacy information relating to staff records. If you wish to contact the Data Protection Officer, please email: sft.information.governance@nhs.net.
The COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport system is hosted by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTH). Your data will be stored by BTH in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The subscription for the cloud is owned by BTH, making BTH a Data Processor for your data. However, all data stored in the Microsoft Azure cloud is encrypted, and at no point will BTH staff have access to your data. Further information about BTH can be found here: , and specifically in relation to information security can be found here:
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If you wish to contact the Data Protection Officer of BTH, please email: bfwh.dataprotection.officer@nhs.net.
Your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer will become the Data Controller of any records which they create using your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport to meet their employment requirements. For your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer 鈥 the location of privacy information and the contact details for the DPO are dependent on the 鈥榥ew鈥 organisation which you join, but will be available on the relevant organisation鈥檚 website.
Further information regarding Data Controllers and Processors can be found on the .
Will any third parties have access to my data?
Your data will be stored by BTH in the Microsoft Azure cloud but BTH staff will not have access to your personal data.
Evernym and Truu provide components of the technical solution but will not have access to your personal data and will not act as Data Processors.
Sitekit provide secondary technical support for the digital passport system. Sitekit will not routinely have access to your personal data, but there may be occasions where personal data is shared with Sitekit staff during the course of providing technical support. Any personal data obtained in this way by Sitekit will only be used to enable technical support, and will not be used for any other purpose or retained by Sitekit in any way. Sitekit are an approved NHS subcontractor who have been subject to stringent Data Protection Impact Assessments and meet Data Security and Protection standards. For more information about Sitekit, please see here.
Your data will be sent electronically from the Trust ESR system to the Staff Passport system, in order to streamline and safeguard this process we will be required to use a component provided to us by Cloud Gateway. This processing activity is fully encrypted and at no point will they have access to any personal information.
How long will you keep my data?
COVID-19 Digital Staff Passports will only be valid for the duration of the current COVID-19 health emergency. Once this emergency has ended and there is no longer a need for the scheme, all digital passports will be revoked by the creating organisation.
What are my Information Rights?
As a data subject, you are entitled to the following:
If you make a request, the Data Controller has one month to respond to you.
Further information regarding your Information Rights can be found on the .
How do I make an Information Rights request?
Your current employer is the Data Controller of the information which is uploaded to the digital passport system to create your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport. You should contact your current employer with any Information Rights requests relating to your digital passport 鈥 including to rectify details, or to revoke the digital passport. To submit an Information Rights request contact [this placeholder will be updated after registration].
Your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer will become the Data Controller of any records which they create using your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport to meet their employment requirements. Contact details for submitting an Information Rights request are dependent on the 鈥榥ew鈥 organisation which you join, but will be available on the relevant organisation鈥檚 website. Please note, your current employer is required to notify your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer of any changes to the content of the data held in your passport (rectification or erasure), or any changes to your status 鈥 especially if this relates to fitness to practice.
Can I object to or complain about the use of my data?
As a data subject, you have the right to object to or complain about how your data is used. If you have reason to believe your data is being processed illegally or inappropriately, then you can contact the Data Protection Officer of the relevant Data Controller organisation. If you are not satisfied with the way the relevant Data Controller has handled your concerns, you can contact the ICO 鈥 further details can be found on the
NHS COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport Privacy Notice for [this placeholder will be updated after registration]
Version 3, 28th September 2020
Introduction
During the current COVID-19 health emergency, various plans and projects are being implemented to help the NHS meet the unprecedented challenges and provide the best possible care to our patients. One of those challenges is ensuring that our clinical staff members are able to work where they are needed most and where their skills can be best utilised, and to reduce the administrative delays in making this happen. To enable this, staff who volunteer to participate in the scheme will be provided with a digital passport 鈥 the COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport 鈥 which summarises their clinical attributes, is verified by their current employer, and will allow them to begin working in another NHS location as quickly as possible.
What is a COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport?
If you choose to participate in in the scheme, your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport will primarily be digital in nature 鈥 although a paper version can be produced 鈥 and it will contain personal information about you. Your current employer will create the digital passport by collating information about you from their existing records, and uploading it to the COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport system. You will have full control over how your digital passport is used 鈥 as it will be accessed via a digital wallet on your smartphone (or held by you in paper form), and you choose when you wish to share it. We highly recommend that you protect your personal device with a password or biometric scan to ensure the security of your information. When you arrive at your 鈥榥ew鈥 NHS location, your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer will ask to see your digital passport and conduct a verification check with your current employer. This will reduce the need for lengthy employment checks or checks with professional regulators, to enable you to start work as soon as possible.
What data will be processed?
Only staff data which is held by your current organisation will be processed via your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport. The information collated will be the minimum necessary to populate your digital passport and will all be relevant for creating your staff profile at your next organisation. This will include:
What is the purpose of processing my data?
The information processed via your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport is all information which is currently processed by your existing employer to meet employment requirements, and is needed by your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer for those same purposes. The lawful basis for processing this information by each organisation for your employment purposes is as per the following GDPR articles:
However, user participation in the COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport scheme is entirely voluntary, and as such, the lawful basis for processing information using the Passport system can be found in the following GDPR articles:
Further information regarding the lawful basis for processing can be found on the .
Who will control my data?
Your current employer is the Data Controller of the existing records which they hold about you relating to your employment, and will be the Data Controller of the information which is uploaded to the digital passport system to create your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport. As such, your current employer is the Data Controller of your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport, and will handle any Information Rights requests relating to the passport, and will be able to give you privacy information relating to staff records. If you wish to contact the Data Protection Officer, please email: sft.information.governance@nhs.net.
The COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport system is hosted by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTH). Your data will be stored by BTH in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The subscription for the cloud is owned by BTH, making BTH a Data Processor for your data. However, all data stored in the Microsoft Azure cloud is encrypted, and at no point will BTH staff have access to your data. Further information about BTH can be found , and specifically in relation to information security can be found . If you wish to contact the Data Protection Officer of BTH, please email: bfwh.dataprotection.officer@nhs.net.
Your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer will become the Data Controller of any records which they create using your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport to meet their employment requirements. For your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer 鈥 the location of privacy information and the contact details for the DPO are dependent on the 鈥榥ew鈥 organisation which you join, but will be available on the relevant organisation鈥檚 website.
Further information regarding Data Controllers and Processors can be found on the .
Will any third parties have access to my data?
Your data will be stored by BTH in the Microsoft Azure cloud but BTH staff will not have access to your personal data.
Evernym and Truu provide components of the technical solution but will not have access to your personal data and will not act as Data Processors.
Sitekit provide secondary technical support for the digital passport system. Sitekit will not routinely have access to your personal data, but there may be occasions where personal data is shared with Sitekit staff during the course of providing technical support. Any personal data obtained in this way by Sitekit will only be used to enable technical support, and will not be used for any other purpose or retained by Sitekit in any way. Sitekit are an approved NHS subcontractor who have been subject to stringent Data Protection Impact Assessments and meet Data Security and Protection standards. For more information about Sitekit, please see here.
Your data will be sent electronically from the Trust ESR system to the Staff Passport system, in order to streamline and safeguard this process we will be required to use a component provided to us by Cloud Gateway. This processing activity is fully encrypted and at no point will they have access to any personal information.
How long will you keep my data?
COVID-19 Digital Staff Passports will only be valid for the duration of the current COVID-19 health emergency. Once this emergency has ended and there is no longer a need for the scheme, all digital passports will be revoked by the creating organisation.
What are my Information Rights?
As a data subject, you are entitled to the following:
If you make a request, the Data Controller has one month to respond to you.
Further information regarding your Information Rights can be found on the .
How do I make an Information Rights request?
Your current employer is the Data Controller of the information which is uploaded to the digital passport system to create your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport. You should contact your current employer with any Information Rights requests relating to your digital passport 鈥 including to rectify details, or to revoke the digital passport. To submit an Information Rights request contact [this placeholder will be updated after registration].
Your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer will become the Data Controller of any records which they create using your COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport to meet their employment requirements. Contact details for submitting an Information Rights request are dependent on the 鈥榥ew鈥 organisation which you join, but will be available on the relevant organisation鈥檚 website. Please note, your current employer is required to notify your 鈥榥ew鈥 employer of any changes to the content of the data held in your passport (rectification or erasure), or any changes to your status 鈥 especially if this relates to fitness to practice.
Can I object to or complain about the use of my data?
As a data subject, you have the right to object to or complain about how your data is used. If you have reason to believe your data is being processed illegally or inappropriately, then you can contact the Data Protection Officer of the relevant Data Controller organisation. If you are not satisfied with the way the relevant Data Controller has handled your concerns, you can contact the ICO 鈥 further details can be found on the .
黑料网 has entered into a contract with Quantum Health Solutions (QHS) Limited to provide a Covid 19 vaccination booking system, Covid Track.
This privacy notice confirms that 黑料网 and or your organisation has agreed to use QHS is processing your vaccination booking.
This privacy notice explains what personal data QHS collects from NHS staff or third party organisations who participate (鈥測ou鈥,鈥漼our鈥) in the NHS led Covid-19 vaccination appointment booking programme. The contract identifies the Trust is a data controller when processing its own employees data and retains legally responsible for complying with your rights under UK GDPR the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA2018).
If you are a Trust employee who wishes to ask for copies of information held about you please contact the Trusts Data Protection Officer via email sft.Information.Governace@nhs.net.
EXTERNAL EMPLOYEES
If you work for an external organisation or company, other than the Trust your employer remain responsible for providing you with copies of your information. The Trust processes your data as a data processor and therefore, is not responsible for supplying copies of your personal data held in Covid Track directly to you.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION IS PROCESS BY COVID TRACK?
To fulfil obligations to your employer鈥檚 (NHS healthcare organisation), we process the following personal information:
NATIONAL REPORTING
Under the Coronavirus Act 2020, all organisations are required by law to provide limited information to NHS and Public Health England about the number of staff who have been vaccinated, when the vaccine was administered and when the second vaccination must be given. This information is completely anonymised and will include details of your ethnicity and vaccination status only.
PURPOSES AND BASES FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
When providing services to you, your personal information will be processed by QHS on behalf of the Trust for the following purposes:
International Transfers
The Trust and QHS will not transfer your personal data outside of the UK.
Your rights:
The UK GDPR and DPA 2018, provides you with certain rights. The table below confirms in column 1 which rights apply who to contact to apply your rights:
Your Rights |
Rights Which Apply |
Request access to personal data about you (commonly known as a 鈥渄ata subject access request鈥). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, and to check that we are lawfully processing it. This service is free of charge and can take up to 30 days. |
Yes |
Request rectification, correction, or updating to any of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected. |
Yes |
Request personal data provided by you to be transferred in machine-readable format (鈥渄ata portability鈥). |
No |
Request erasure of personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data where you have exercised your right to object to processing |
Yes |
Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you (e.g. if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it). |
No |
Object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. This right may apply where the processing of your personal data is based on the legitimate |
No |
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WHO DO YOU CONTACT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?
Please contact your employer to ask for copies of information held about you first. They will then request copies of your information from QHS and release it to you.
HOW LONG WILL YOUR INFORMATION RETAINED?
Your information will be retained in the system in compliance with the retention schedules within the NHS Code of Practice: Records Management or the contract ends.
YOUR RIGHT OF ACCESS: NON TRUST EMPLOYEES
You can contact your employer to make a complaint. The Trust Data Protection Officer will support your organisation to ensure data held in Covid Track is supplied to you in a timely manner.
HOW TO COMPLAIN
If you wish to raise a concern about how your personal information is being used, stored or shared. Please contact:
Information Governance Department 黑料网 黑料网 District Hospital Odstock Road Odstock Near 黑料网 Wiltshire SP2 8BJ 听 01722 336262 Ext 5716 & 5731 |
Information Commissioners Office Wycliffe House Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) Fax: 01625 524 510 听 |
黑料网 is registered with the Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office which is the regulator for data protection and privacy and electronic communications. Our registration number is: Z6613850
黑料网 is registered with the Department of Health (DOH) and our security and confidentiality compliance is assessed annually by the completion of the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DPST).A full copy of our data protection registration details can be accessed via the link: Register of Data Controllers
This is an online system which allows organisations鈥 information security, data protection, and confidentiality processes and procedures to be assessed against national standards required by NHS Digital and the Care Quality Commission. To access details of the Trusts compliance please visit: 听
We follow UK law and will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary.
We will review and update this notice regularly in line with guidance issued by the privacy regulator, the Department of Health and NHS Digital.
The BSW CCG have entered into a contract with Quantum Health Solutions (QHS) Limited to provide a staff Flu and Covid 19 vaccination booking system, Flu Track/Covid Track on behalf of the NHS Trusts and NHS providers within the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire region.
This privacy notice confirms that 黑料网 (the Trust) has agreed to use QHS for processing your flu and COVID booster vaccination bookings.
This privacy notice explains what personal data QHS collects from NHS staff or third party organisations who participate (鈥測ou鈥,鈥漼our鈥) in the NHS led Flu and Covid-19 booster vaccinations appointment booking programme. The Trust is a Data Controller when processing its own employee鈥檚 data and retains legally responsibility for complying with your rights under UK GDPR the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA2018).
If you are a Trust employee who wishes to ask for copies of information held about you please contact the Information Governance Department by emailing sft.Information.Governace@nhs.net
ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT WITH OTHER NHS TRUSTS AND NHS PROVIDERS
If in addition to working at the Trust you also have employment with other NHS Trusts or NHS providers within the Bath and North east Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire region (i.e. RUH, GWH, WHC and Virgin care) information on your vaccination status and appointments will then be shared with them.听 This is to avoid unnecessary duplication of appointments and effort as well as providing accuracy of reporting. 听In such circumstances each employing organisation will be Data Controller of your data and be legally responsible for complying with your rights under UK GDPR the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA2018).
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION IS PROCESSED BY FLU TRACK/COVID TRACK?
To fulfil obligations to your employer鈥檚 (NHS healthcare organisation), we process the following personal information:
NATIONAL REPORTING
All NHS Trusts and other NHS providers and organisations are required to provide limited information to NHS and Public Health England about the Flu and COVID vaccination status for their staff.听 The data provided is completely anonymised and will include details of overall vaccination rates and information such as ethnicity and vaccination status for groups of staff.
PURPOSES AND BASES FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
When providing services to you, your personal information will be processed by QHS on behalf of the Trust for the following purposes:
International Transfers
The Trust and QHS will not transfer your personal data outside of the UK.
Your rights:
The UK GDPR and DPA 2018, provides you with certain rights. The table below confirms in column 1 which rights apply who to contact to apply your rights:
Your Rights |
Rights Which Apply |
Request access to personal data about you (commonly known as a 鈥渄ata subject access request鈥). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, and to check that we are lawfully processing it. This service is free of charge and can take up to 30 days. |
Yes |
Request rectification, correction, or updating to any of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected. |
Yes |
Request personal data provided by you to be transferred in machine-readable format (鈥渄ata portability鈥). |
No |
Request erasure of personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data where you have exercised your right to object to processing |
Yes |
Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you (e.g. if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it). |
No |
Object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. This right may apply where the processing of your personal data is based on the legitimate |
No |
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WHO DO YOU CONTACT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?
Please contact the Trust鈥檚 Occupational Team to ask for copies of information held about you in the first instance. They will then request copies of your information from QHS and release it to you.听 If you have additional employment with other NHS organisations, and have booked your vaccination appointments through their own arrangements, you should contact them direct.
HOW LONG WILL YOUR INFORMATION RETAINED?
Your information will be retained in the system in compliance with the retention schedules within the NHS Code of Practice: Records Management or the contract ends.
HOW TO COMPLAIN
If you wish to raise a concern about how your personal information is being used, stored or shared. Please contact:
Information Governance Department 黑料网 黑料网 District Hospital Odstock Road Odstock Near 黑料网 Wiltshire SP2 8BJ Tel: 01722 336262 Ext 5716 & 5731 |
Information Commissioners Office Wycliffe House Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) Fax: 01625 524 510 听 听 |
IECCPP initiative is designed to reduce patient waiting times and drive elective recovery across Wiltshire.听
The ICCPP programme specifically facilitates NHS Trusts integrating pre-defined personal information datasets to manage and reduce waiting lists for appointments in the acute sector.
This programme provides the Trust with an opportunity to strengthen our elective care programme, whilst improving patient outcomes and experience.听
More information about the NHS England IECCPP initiative please click this link:听 听
黑料网 takes seriously its obligations to protect the rights and freedoms of patients, staff, volunteers, trainees, and contractors. The Trust is committed to building privacy by design and default into our systems and services, to minimise any risks to data subjects that might arise through our processing activities.
However, we recognise that there may be circumstances in which members of the public or staff raise concerns or complaints about the way the Trust is processing their personal data. This procedure gives a framework for managing data protection complaints consistently and transparently, to ensure fair and equitable outcomes for complainants. It will also clarify the relationship between this procedure and other complaints and grievance procedures at the Trust, and related data protection procedures, such as our Data Breach Reporting Procedure and our Data Subject Access Request appeal process.
If Trust staff, or members of the public wish to refer or make a complaint, raise a query about the procedure, or otherwise need to get in touch, please contact the IG Team using the email address sft.information.governance@nhs.net or call 01722 336262 Ext 5716 & 5731.
Confidentiality
Any complaint or concern you raise will be treated in confidence. We will only share your identity or the details of your complaint with a third party with your consent, or if it is necessary to do so to fully investigate your complaint.
Records relating to your complaint will be held securely in restricted areas of the Trust鈥檚 IT network or system. The records relating to your complaint will be retained in line with our data retention policies (for ten years from the end of the calendar year in which the final action on your complaint takes place at the time of writing).
It may be necessary during the investigation to reveal to you the identities and personal data of staff or other third parties involved in responding to the complaint. This information will be provided to you only as required, and you must always respect the confidentiality of third parties.
Grievance and representation
Any complaint or allegation cannot be made anonymously.
A third party may submit the complaint on your behalf with your written and signed authorisation, subject to approval by the Data Protection Officer or their delegate.
Internal concerns and complaints procedure
The Data Protection Officer or their delegate will write an initial letter to you, usually within 5 working days, to acknowledge receipt of your complaint. The letter will inform you:
The Data Protection Officer or their delegate will aim to conclude the formal investigation and provide you with an outcome within 20 working days of sending you the initial letter.
At the end of the review the Data Protection Officer will provide you with an response summarise the complaint and examination process, this may including further evidence gathered from yourself, colleagues or any other relevant third party, and an assessment of the extent to which specific concerns raised in the complaint contravene the Trusts Data Protection policies and procedures and Data Protection Legislation, to help you better understand the outcome of the review. The outcome section of the report will tell you whether your complaint is:
The response will set out any recommendations proposed by the Trust. The Data Protection Officer may recommend the case is referred for further consideration under the relevant internal disciplinary procedure. This might include, for example, cases where the investigation identifies a serious breach of the Trust鈥檚 Data Protection policies and procedures by an individual subject to said policies and procedures, or an infringement of Data Protection or Computer Misuse legislation.
The response marks the final stage of the Trusts Data Protection Complaints procedure. The Trust will aim to put in place any recommendations within one calendar month of the date of the report, where possible.
If the review finds that a person has processed your personal data and infringe sections 170-173 of the Data Protection Act (2018), the matter may be referred to the Police if the Trust believes that one or more of the criminal offences listed below has been breached:
Right to representation
You have the right to be accompanied at any meeting arranged under this procedure to investigate your complaint. You may choose to be accompanied by a friend, and staff by a work colleague or a trade union representative. This procedure does not permit any party to have legal representation at meetings. The identity of your representative should be made known to other parties to the meeting prior to the date of the meeting.
If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act (2010) in connection with meetings or other proceedings under this procedure, please inform the Data Protection Officer in advance.
You can also seek advice from or make a complaint to the Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office (ICO) who is the UK data protection regulator.
Your Right to an External Review
If you reject the outcome of the formal investigation, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office (ICO) using their online reporting tool here or by calling 0303 123 1113.
Whilst you have the right to make a complaint to the ICO without seeking a remedy through this procedure, we recommend that you follow this procedure in the first instance to advance the resolution of your complaint.
If the Police investigate a Trust employee about an offence listed in section 5.3 above, the Trust will consider whether internal disciplinary procedures should continue or be paused until the outcome of the police investigation is known.
The NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) - is a series of separate data platforms, known as 鈥榠nstances鈥. This hospital trust has its own instance of the NHS FDP which makes it easier for health and care organisations to work together, compare data, analyse it at different geographic, demographic and organisational levels and share and spread new effective digital solutions. The NHS FDP has the ability to connect and share information between health and care organisations when it鈥檚 helpful and where legal data sharing agreements are in place. For example, to discharge a patient from hospital into a care setting.
In this Trust, the NHS FDP will be used for inpatient and outpatient care co-ordination and for the RTT (Referral to Treatment Time) validation tool. The respective privacy notices for each of these areas can be reviewed using the links below:-
The NHS FDP is not a data collection; it is software procured by NHS England that will help to connect disparate sets of data and allow them to be used more effectively for care. If you would like to find out more about this, please visit: .
Our staff at 黑料网 District Hospital have long been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment they provide for our patients and for their innovation, commitment and professionalism. This has been recognised in a wide range of achievements and it is reflected in our award of NHS Foundation Trust status. This is afforded to hospitals that provide the highest standards of care.