We ask for information about you to enable staff to provide you with relevant care and treatment, both within the surgery and the local NHS area. We keep this information so that it can be referred to during future consultations/treatment. This information may also be used for other reasons; other areas of the NHS may require information upon referral to secondary care, for data collection or research purposes. Wherever possible or relevant all patient identifying details are removed.

The NHS Central Register for England and Wales contains details of all patients registered with a GP, but this does not include clinical information. Under certain circumstances we are required by law to provide information, such as a birth. We may also need to share information about you with other healthcare workers who are providing care for you. Anyone receiving this information is under a legal duty to keep any information known about you confidential. Further information regarding access to patient details and your rights are available from the surgery.