Introduction

The Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust keeps data on you relating to who you are, where you live, what you do, your family, possibly your friends, your employers, your habits, your problems and diagnoses, the reasons you seek help, your appointments, where you are seen and when you are seen, who by, referrals to and from specialists and other healthcare providers, tests carried out both here and in other places, investigations and scans, treatments and outcomes of treatments, your treatment history, the observations and opinions of other healthcare workers, within and without the NHS as well as comments and aide memoires reasonably made by healthcare professionals in this organisation who are appropriately involved in your health care.

When registering for NHS care within KMPT, all patients who receive care are registered on a organisational database, which is held by KMPT and hosted by Servelec,, a third party company which has legal responsibilities to protect your information.

We work as a partnership organisation for mental health services and may need to share some clinical information with other groups of professionals involved in the provision of care. Please be reassured, we will only use or pass on information where there is a genuine need for it.

Your treatment and care may involve a team, which includes doctors, nurses, therapists, some administrative staff and other health and social care professionals, including your GP. Information about you may be shared to assist those who have an interest in your care or treatment. Your information will only be passed on to those who have a need-to-know and be shared in a secure
manner.

People who have access to your information will only normally have access to that which they need to fulfil their roles, for instance admin staff will normally only have a limited access to your information, whilst your clinical treating team will be able to access the full record. All access to your information is logged within the system and is auditable.

You have the right to object to our sharing your data in these circumstances but we have an overriding responsibility to do what is in your best interests.

We are required by Articles in the General Data Protection Regulations to provide you with the information in the following 9 subsections.