This Privacy Notice explains how Devonshire House Dental Practice, Dental Education and Devonshire House Dental Laboratory Limited handle personal data. We aim to meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR], the guidelines on the Information Commissioner’s website as well as our professional guidelines and requirements.
Our Data Controller is Fiona McGlashan, who is also our Information Governance Lead.
This Privacy Notice is available at reception or by email if you contact mydata@dh-dental.co.uk or by calling 01223 245266.
You will be asked to provide personal information when joining the practice or using our services. The purpose of us processing this data is to provide optimum health care and/or customer service to you.
We minimise the data that we keep and do not keep it for longer than is necessary.
We never pass your personal details to a third party unless we have contract for them to process data on our behalf and will otherwise always keep your personal details confidential. If we intend to refer a patient to another practitioner or to secondary care such as a hospital we will gain the individual’s permission before the referral is made and the personal data is shared.
For full details or where your data is stored, please ask to see Information Governance Procedures (M 217C).
We have established the following lawful bases for processing your data:
Our lawful bases for processing personal data:
The reasons we process the data include:
Your name, address, gender, date of birth, NHS number, medical history, dental history, family medical history, family contact details, marital status financial details for processing payment, your doctor’s details and details of treatment at the practice. We may process more sensitive special category data including ethnicity, race, religion, or sexual orientation so that we can meet our obligations under the Equality Act 2010, or for example to modify treatment to suit your religion.
The retention period for special data in patient records is a minimum of 10 years and may be longer for complex records or to meet our legal requirements. The retention period for staff records is 6 years. The retention periods for other personal data is 2 years after it was last processed. Details of retention periods are available in the Record Retention (M 215) procedure available from the practice.
We obtain your personal details when you enquire about our care and service, when you join the practice, when you subscribe to our newsletter or register online, when you complete a registration or medical history form and when another practitioner refers you for treatment at our practice. Occasionally patients are referred to us from other official sources such as NHS clinics or hospitals.
Further details of these rights can be seen in our Information Governance Procedures or at the Information Commissioner’s website. Here are some practical examples of your rights:
We have carried out a Privacy Impact Assessment in Sensitive Information Map, PIA and Risk Assessment (M 217Q) and you may request a copy from the details below. The details of how we ensure security of personal data are in our Security Risk Assessment and Information Governance Procedures.
Please contact the IG Lead, Fiona McGlashan at the practice for a comment, suggestion or a complaint about your data processing at mydata@dh-dental.co.uk or by calling 01223 245266 or by writing to or visiting the practice at 2 Queen Edith's Way, Cambridge. CB1 7PN. We take complaints very seriously.
If you are unhappy with our response or if you need any advice you should contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Their telephone number is 0303 123 1113, you can also chat online with an advisor. The ICO can investigate your claim and take action against anyone who is found to have misused personal data. You can also visit their website for information on how to make a data protection complaint.
You can also use the above contact details to request copies of the following practice policies or procedures:
Devonshire House is one of many organisations working in the health and care system to improve care for patients and the public. 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 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:
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/information-about-patients/ (which covers health and care research); and
https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/what-you-need-know (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
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 practice only uses your personal health data to provide individual care to you and does not disclose your data for any other purposes. The national data opt-out does not apply to our usage of your data and we are compliant with the policy.
This section explains how processes the information of staff and applicants for job roles within the practice.
So that we can provide a safe and professional service, we need to keep certain records about our team members. We may record the following types of data:
We also record the following data which is classified as “special category”:
As part of your engagement with the practice, you may be required to undergo a Criminal Record Check. This information is not kept for longer than is necessary—usually not more than 6 months following the recruitment decision, unless a dispute is raised or, in exceptional circumstances.
We require this data so that we can contact you, pay you and make sure you receive the training and support you need to perform your job. By law, we need to have a lawful basis for processing your personal data.
We process your data because:
As your employer we need to receive specific data about you. This is collected from or shared with:
We do this face to face, via phone, via email, via our website, via post, via application forms, via apps.
Third parties are organisations we have a legal reason to share your data with. These include:
The police or other law enforcement agencies if we have to by law or court order
The retention period for staff records is 6 years, however, certain information relating to team members may lawfully be kept for longer. Team members should refer to Record Retention (M 215) for further details on how this practice keeps and disposes of staff data. Application forms and interview notes for unsuccessful candidates are kept for one year.
As an individual you have certain rights regarding our processing of your personal data, including a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as the relevant supervisory authority. For more information on your personal data rights, you can access information and advice on the ICO’s website.
You can request a copy of your personal file by contacting the Information Governance Lead.