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Patient Choice Confidentiality, data protection and patient health records
at The Rosie
Cambridge University Hospitals places great emphasis on the need for the strictest confidentiality in respect of personal health data. This applies to manual and computer records and conversations about patients' treatment. Everyone working for the National Health Service (NHS) is under a legal duty to keep patients' information, held in whatever form, confidential.
Patient information includes medical records and 'non-health' information e.g. a patient's name, address, date of birth, details of financial or domestic circumstances provided by the patient and added to by NHS staff, a relative or other person.
> About patient confidentiality
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Cambridge University Hospitals complies with the Data Protection Act; patients are entitled to certain rights regarding information held about them under the Data Protection Act 1998.
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> Patient Advice & Liaison Services (PALS)
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To improve the service and quality of your care a new computer network is being developed nationally that will phase out the need for paper and film records. The network will hold your entire patient record to allow Hospitals, GP’s and chemist’s secure access to your health records to improve information sharing across the NHS.
> The Information Commissioner
