The Practice is dedicated to ensuring that the principles and duties of safeguarding adults and children are holistically, consistently, and conscientiously applied with the wellbeing of all patients at the heart of what we do.
Our legal basis for processing information for safeguarding purposes, as stipulated in the UK GDPR is:
Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’.
For the processing of special categories data, the basis is:
Article 9(2)(b) – ‘processing is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law…’
Categories of personal data collected in the event of a safeguarding situation will be minimised to include only the personal information as is necessary in order to handle the situation. In addition to some basic demographic and contact details, we will also process details of what the safeguarding concern is. This is likely to be special category information.
This data will be collected when someone contacts the Practice with safeguarding concerns, or we believe there may be a concern and make enquiries to relevant providers.
The information related to the concern may be shared accordingly to ensure a duty of care and investigation as required with other partners such as local authorities, the police, or healthcare professionals.
Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) collects anonymised patient data from a network of GP practices across the UK. Primary care data is linked to a range of other health related data to provide a fully representative UK population health dataset. You can opt out of your information being used for research purposes at any time and full details on CRPD can be found here.