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Welcome to Beckenham PCN
Privacy Notice: Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an organisation established in English law by the Health and Social Care Act. The CQC is the regulator for English health and social care services to ensure that safe care is provided. They inspect and produce reports on all English general practices in a rolling 5 year program.
The law allows the Practice to share identifiable patient information with CQC as well as requiring this Practice to share certain types of data with them in certain circumstances, for instance following a significant safety incident.
See more information about the CQC
1) Controller contact details
Beckenham PCN
2) Data Protection Officer contact details
Danielle Gibbons
GP Data Protection Officer
gpdpo@selondonics.nhs.uk
3) Purpose of the processing
To meet the legal obligation to provide the Department of Health with information and reports on the status, activity and performance of NHS GP practices. This may include identifiable patient data.
4) Lawful basis for processing
The legal basis will be
Article 6(1)(c) “processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.”
And
Article 9(2)(h) “processing is necessary for the purposes of preventive 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 on the basis of Union or Member State law or pursuant to contract with a health professional and subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph 3;”
5) Recipient or categories of recipients of the shared data
The data will be shared with the Care Quality Commission, its officers and staff and members of the inspection teams that visit us from time to time.
6) Rights to object
You have the right to object to some or all the information being shared with NHS Digital. Contact the Controller or the practice.
7) Right to access and correct
You have the right to access the data that is being shared and have any inaccuracies corrected. There is no right to have accurate medical records deleted except when ordered by a court of Law.
8) Retention period
The data will be retained for active use during the processing and thereafter according to NHS Policies and the law.
9) Right to Complain.
You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office online or calling their helpline Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)
There are National Offices for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, (see ICO website).