How Your Information is Shared so That This Practice can Meet Legal Requirements

The law requires Queensferry Medical Practice to share information from your medical records in certain circumstances. Information is shared so that the NHS or Public Health Wales can, for example:

• Plan and manage services
• Check that the care being provided is safe
• Prevent infectious diseases from spreading

We will share information with local health protection teams when the law requires us to do so. Please see below for more information.

We must also share your information if a court of law orders us to do so.

Public Health

• The law requires us to share data for public health reasons, for example to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or other diseases, which threaten the health of the population
• We will report the relevant information to local health protection team or Public Health Wales