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.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018 third parties such as solicitors and insurance companies are entitled to request copies of information relating to our patients or staff. In addition, it may be requested that the organisation provide a medical report in relation to clinical interactions with you.

Third parties accessing your information will only be able to do so by providing your explicit consent to allow them to either access to, or copies of information. This consent will need to be dated within the last six months, and we will request identification from the requestor before producing any information.

You have the right to refuse to provide consent in these cases. We are required by Articles in the General Data Protection Regulations to provide you with the information in the following 9 subsections