What Do NUPAS Do With Your Data?

What we do with your data?

NUPAS provide high quality healthcare. We effectively and safely store your information (your data) including your personal health, your treatment and record the below.

Your full name, date of birth and next of kin.
Your consent preferences
Feedback from you
Details of our contact with you.
Record of your care and treatment
Details of your tests, investigations, and scans.
Information from professionals involved with you and your care.

We will use your records to:

Support clinical decision making about your care and treatment
Ensure your care is effective, safe and of the highest quality
Inform working with others to provide your care (where needed)
Ensure that we meet our legal and mandatory duties as a provider of healthcare services
Process payment for services where applicable (private patients)

At NUPAS we are legally required to keep your information confidential.

We are required to:

Keep records about your care
Keep your records secure and confidential
Provide easy to use information that meets your needs
Only keep information about you for as long as needed by law

The law states that NUPAS notifies the Chief Medical Officer about every Abortion that takes place. The form used for this notification is called a HSA4 form and is used only for forming statistics.

This is needed for every abortion. A HSA4 form does not state your name but does include:

Your date of birth
Postcode
Ethnicity
Marital Status
Treatment details
How many weeks pregnant you are.
The legal grounds for the abortion.

NUPAS will anonymise information about you prior to sharing where possible.

We will not share information that identifies you unless.

You ask us directly to do so
We ask you if we can and you agree
We are required to by law
We are required to as it is in the interests of the public
We have permission to under special reasons for health or audit purposes.

There may be occasions where others may need access to your information.

We will use anonymised information wherever possible.

Others may need access to your records to:

Complete quality checks on the care we provide.
Protect the health of the public
Look into a complaint or concern about your care.
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At NUPAS you have the rights as a patient to confidentiality under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Human Rights Act 1998. You have the rights to: