You and Your Health Records
As part of its commitment to patient care, Berkshire NHS has to record personal information. This is to ensure you get proper care and treatment. We keep these details because they may be needed if we see you again.
We may use some of this information to help us:
- protect the health of the public generally
- see that the NHS runs efficiently
- plan for the future
- train our staff, pay our bills and account for our actions
This information might also be used in conjunction with:
- paying your doctor, nurse, dentist, or other staff, and the hospital that treats you
- auditing accounts
- preparing statistics on NHS performance and activity
- investigating complaints or legal claims
- helping staff to review the care they provide and make sure it is of the highest standard
- training and educating staff (but you can choose whether or not to be involved personally)
- undertaking research approved by the Local Research Ethics Committee (if anything to do with the research involves you personally you would be contacted to give your consent)
Everyone working for the NHS has a legal duty to keep information about you confidential.
If at any time you would like to know more about how we use your information please contact the risk and audit manager on 01753 634190 / 01753 634267, or, alternatively, read through this booklet: NHS Care Record Guarantee.
Click here for access to health records.
To read our privacy statement, click here.
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