are occasions when intervention is necessary in order to save or protect a patient’s life or to prevent them from serious immediate harm, for instance during a collapse or diabetic coma or serious injury or accident. In many of these circumstances the patient may be unconscious or too ill to communicate. In these circumstances we have an overriding duty to try to protect and treat the patient. If necessary we will share your information and possibly sensitive confidential information with other emergency healthcare services, the police or fire brigade, so that you can receive the best treatment. The law acknowledges this and provides supporting legal justifications. Individuals have the right to make pre-determined decisions about the type and extend of care they will receive should they fall ill in the future, these are known as “Advance Directives”. If lodged in your records these will normally be honoured despite the observations in the first paragraph. 1) contact Abington Medical Centre Data Controller details 2) Data Protection Officer Alison Cooper Practice Manager – contact details Abington Medical Centre 3) Purpose of the processing Doctors have a professional responsibility to share data in emergencies to protect their patients or other persons. Often in emergency situations the patient is unable to provide consent. 4) Lawful basis for processing This is a Direct Care purpose. There is a specific legal justification; Article 6(1)(d) is necessary to protect the vital interests of the “processing data subject or of another natural person” And Article 9(2)(c) is necessary to protect the vital interests of the “processing data subject or of another natural person where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent” Or alternatively Article 9(2)(h) for the purposes of preventative or occupational ‘necessary medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...” We will also recognise your rights established under UK case law collectively known as the Law Duty of Confidentiality”* “Common 5) Recipient or categories of The data will be shared with Healthcare professionals and other workers recipients of the shared data in emergency and out of hours services and at local hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centres.
are occasions when intervention is necessary in order to save or protect a patient’s life or to prevent them from serious immediate harm, for instance during a collapse or diabetic coma or serious injury or accident. In many of these circumstances the patient may be unconscious or too ill to communicate. In these circumstances we have an overriding duty to try to protect and treat the patient. If necessary we will share your information and possibly sensitive confidential information with other emergency healthcare services, the police or fire brigade, so that you can receive the best treatment. The law acknowledges this and provides supporting legal justifications. Individuals have the right to make pre-determined decisions about the type and extend of care they will receive should they fall ill in the future, these are known as “Advance Directives”. If lodged in your records these will normally be honoured despite the observations in the first paragraph. 1) Data Controller contact details Abington Medical Centre 2) Data Protection Officer contact details Alison Cooper – Practice Manager Abington Medical Centre 3) Purpose of the processing Doctors have a professional responsibility to share data in emergencies to protect their patients or other persons. Often in emergency situations the patient is unable to provide consent. 4) Lawful basis for processing This is a Direct Care purpose. There is a specific legal justification; Article 6(1)(d) “processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person” And Article 9(2)(c) “processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent” Or alternatively Article 9(2)(h) ‘necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...” We will also recognise your rights established under UK case law collectively known as the “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”* 5) Recipient or categories of recipients of the shared data The data will be shared with Healthcare professionals and other workers in emergency and out of hours services and at local hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centres.
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