The Deepings Practice
Data Protection Privacy Notice for Patients
Introduction:
The Deepings Practice has a legal duty to explain how we use any personal information we collect about you at the organisation. We collect records about your health and the treatment you receive in both electronic and paper format.
We are required to provide you with this privacy notice by law. It provides information about how we use the personal and healthcare information we collect, store and hold about you. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or are unclear about how we process or use your personal information or have any other issue regarding your personal and healthcare information, then please contact our Data Protection Officer
This privacy notice lets you know what happens to any personal data that you give to us, or any information that we may collect from you or about you from other organisations.
This privacy notice applies to personal information processed by or on behalf of the practice.
This Notice explains.
- Who we are and how we use your information.
- Information about our Data Protection Officer
- What kinds of personal information about you we hold and use (process)
- The legal grounds for our processing of your personal information (including when we share it with others)
- What should you do if your personal information changes?
- For how long your personal information is retained / stored by us?
- What are your rights under Data Protection laws
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) became law on 25th May 2018, and 1st January 2021 when the UK exited the EU.
For the purpose of applicable data protection legislation (including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (UK) 2016/679) (the “UKGDPR”),Click Here Privacy and the Data Protection Act 2018 Click here practice responsible for your personal data is The Deepings Practice.
This Notice describes how we collect, use, and process your personal data, and how in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations to you. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your data privacy rights.
20.12.2024
Additional Privacy Notice - AI Scribe Tools
As part of the Digital First National programme of work, GP Practices are required to record accurate data about patient interaction, especially within consultations. To assist with this administrative task, the practice is using a new technology known as AI Scribe, namely Heidi and Anima.
The primary purposes include improving clinical documentation, aiding healthcare professionals in notetaking, and generating consult summaries. Both technologies enable clinicians to focus on patients during the consultation, contributing to improved patient care. It also acts as a valuable tool for medical practitioners, saving them hours of administrative time per week.
They work by transcribing speech into text from a healthcare encounter such as conversations between clinicians and patients or by clinicians dictating their clinical findings, impression and/or management plans before, during and after the healthcare encounter. The clinician can also add additional contextual notes about the healthcare encounter.
These systems are designed to alleviate the administrative burden on healthcare professionals, allowing them to focus more on patient care rather than paperwork. The AI Scribe will leverage natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition technology, and machine learning algorithms to understand and interpret complex medical dialogue, identify key health information, and categorise data into the appropriate sections of an Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Your consent will be sought for consultations that are transcribed using the AI scribe tools. They also use aggregated de-identified information from these consults to improve its models and outputs, ultimately improving both patient care and clinician experience.
All Data that identifies you stays within the practice and its servers which are UK based, no identifiable data is used by the AI Scribe tools for machine learning.
AI Scribe will not make decisions about your care, it only transcribes verbal interactions with the practice, with your consent.