The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law that determines how your personal data is processed and kept safe, and the legal rights that you have in relation to your own data.

The regulation applied from the 25 May 2018, and will apply when the UK leaves the EU.

What does GDPR Mean for Patients?

The GDPR sets out the key principles about processing data, for staff or patients:

• Data must be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently.
• It must be collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes.
• It must be limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
• Information must be accurate.
• Data must be held securely.
• It can only be retained for as long as is necessary for the reasons it was collected.

There are also stronger rights for the patients regarding the information that practices hold about them. These include:

• Being informed about how their data is used.
• Patients to have access to their own data.
• Patients can ask to have incorrect information changed.
• Restrict how their data is used.
• Move their patient data from one health organisation to another.
• The right to object to their patient information.

GDPR and Crickhowell Group Practice

In accordance to the GDPR regulations, Crickhowell Group Practice has an updated Privacy Notice which includes:

• What information we collect.
• Why we need to collect it.
• How long we collect it for.
• Who has access to it.
• How we use it.