The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Central Alerting System (CAS) is the national system for issuing patient safety alerts, important public health messages and other safety-critical information to all providers, including GP practices. From 1 October 2019, MHRA…
Practices will soon be invited to share their patient databases with Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). Practices can expect CPRD to be contacting them in the future and it is up to practices to decide whether they wish to participate.…
The below from UHB’s chief executive Dr David Rosser has been sent by BSOL CCG to its member practices, but the significance of this for all practices across Birmingham is such that I feel it and my message on this…
Why the right of access to patient data needn’t be a headache for GPs. Organisation: Information Commissioner’s Office Type: Blog Date: 7 March 2019 A patient’s right to access their own medical records from their GP is a long-established principle…
The GDPR requires practices to process data ‘fairly’ and in a ‘transparent manner’ which is ‘easily accessible and easy to understand’. This means that practices must provide information to patients about how the practice processes patient data in the form…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU Regulation which will be directly applicable in the UK on 25 May 2018. The most relevant changes for GPs in their role as data controllers are highlighted in the box below…
GDPR changes to Subject Access Requests and fees from 25 May 2018 The General Data Protection Regulations and the Data Protection Act 2018 replaced the Data Protection Act 1998 on 25 May 2018, bringing in widespread changes to UK data…
Please see below the link to the updated GPC GDPR guidance on the BMA website (the new section is under FAQs).
GDPR privacy notices Template GDPR practice privacy notices (PPNs) have now been published on the GDPR hub page in the BMA resources section. The hubpage also contains information on the regulation and hosts a suite of resources and blogs to help guide members, including…