We process your personal data, which includes your name, contact details, prescription medicines and data from other pharmacy and health care services we provide to you (for example pharmacy medicines, medicine use reviews, flu vaccinations) for the purposes of:

Your care: providing pharmacy services and care to you and, as appropriate, sharing your information with your GP and others in the wider NHS.  We are enabled to process this information on the basis of Article 6 (e) – Public task processing, to enable us to undertake our official functions and Article 9(h) – Processing is necessary for the purposes of provision of healthcare

Management: sharing only limited information with the wider NHS, and sometimes local authorities, as well as those external to the NHS who ensure we maintain appropriate professional and service standards and that your declarations and ours are accurate. We are enabled to process this information on the basis of Article 6 (e) – Public task processing, to enable us to undertake our official functions.

We hold your information for as long as advised by the NHS. You have a right to a copy of the information we hold about you, generally without charge. You may seek to correct any inaccurate information.

We process your personal data in the performance of a task in the public interest, for the provision of healthcare and treatment and the management of healthcare systems. A pharmacist is responsible for the confidentiality of your information.

You may object to us holding your information, by contacting the Trust’s Data Protection Officer (contact details below).  You may also lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Please ask if you want more information.

Further information about how Stockport NHS Foundation Trust handles patient information can be found on the Data Protection pages of the Trust Website (www.stockport.nhs.uk)

Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) is:

Khaja Hussain, Asst. Dir. Of Information/DPO
Information.governance@stockport.nhs.uk