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You can visit our web site without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. However, there may be occasions where we do ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website.
However, you can be assured that any information you provide will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement and we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.
It allows us to provide you with the information requested and or to offer you an appointment and provision of service.
We are committed to ensuring that you information data is securely protected. We have managerial, structural and state of the art electronic security measures in place to ensure that your data is protected against unauthorized access, loss or destruction.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should be aware that:
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You can choose how web browser cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings including to refuse or delete all cookies. If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, the website may not function properly and certain services will not be provided. Each browser is different, so check the Help menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences or follow the instructions provided at: www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies, which provides information for the most common browsers.
During the course of your visit to this website, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. We do not record personal details and do not pass on any user information to third parties.
When you make an appointment and attend our clinic the Practitioner you visit will request and record specific data from you, which is required to establish your medical health care record.
We have set out below the type of data that we require for your assessment and treatment in respect of physiotherapy, medical acupuncture, clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy sports therapy & complementary therapy.
Our Lawful Basis for collecting, recording, storing and using your data is “Legal obligation”. However, we access other lawful basses for certain criteria, as listed below:
We have determined that our lawful bases are “Legal Obligation” which represent our activity in regards to our Practitioner and client relationship and our relationship with a client’s medico-legal intermediary, health insurance Provider, solicitor and/ or health care professional. Therefore, we have a statutory requirement to record, collect, store and use your data.
Should we be in a position to offer you a credit/debit cards service then we will process your payment details via this lawful basis. Occasionally we do use a PayPal service.
We use this lawful basis if you have requested our clinic newsletter.
Our newsletter informs you of current issues surrounding physical, mental and complementary healthcare, current practice, and new methods of treatment including occasional special offers.
In case the Practitioner has to access his second professional role as a HCPC Registered Paramedic in which he is required to provide lifesaving and/or critical care to you, your chaperone or a member of your family. Access to this data will be required to assist and provide the emergency services, you, your chaperone or your family member with a level of care as required.
Please note, that on your first appointment, you will be provided with a laminated version of our privacy notice and you will be required to read and sign a further two forms:
1. Data consent form.
2. Examination and Treatment consent form.
We collect your data specifically for your physical and mental health care and well-being and as
such your data is considered as special category data.
Information provided by you and recorded by our Practitioners will consist of personal identifiable information and sensitive personal data appertaining to your health and wellbeing.
The Practitioner looking after you will collect your data and this will be the Practitioner who you have requested to consult with. The clinic Practitioners are Kevin Anthony Walsh and Joy Ayton-Walsh.
Data which is freely and voluntarily provided by you will be stored on a PC software programme
To formulate a medical health care record including any clinical and/or therapeutic treatment interventions recorded in your treatment plan.
Your records are stored solely for the purpose of maintaining a medical record. Your medical records are designed to keep a historical and up to date evidence-based report of your health care provision, progress and rehabilitation.
We provide our accountants and HMRC with our taxation records on a yearly basis. Information sent to these organisations will consist of your Initial and surname and your payment methodology such as: your bank, cheque no, cash payment, BACS and/or credit and debit card transaction.
Please call us for this information
Should we need to take action to recover unpaid fees or debts.
Your data will not be shared with any other party unless you request it to be shared and you provide your consent for us to do so.
With your consent, we may share your data with your GP and/or an additional allied Health Care Professional for consulting and referral purposes and for obtaining a second opinion.
Any medico-legal organisation, health insurance provider and/or solicitor referring you will have obtained your consent for us to report certain data back to them on a standard medico-legal reporting template or a clinical letter.
If requested, we are legally bound to share your data with any lawful and/or Crown agency that requests access to your data via appropriate data release requests.
In communicating with your G.P, Health Care Professional, medico-legal intermediaries, health insurance provider and/or your solicitor we will be:
1. To promote and enhance your healthcare, improve the quality of your life and provide health care protection and safety.
2. To comply with the health care reporting requirements of the above organisations.
No, because the clients’ healthcare and wellbeing are the basis of our business and therefore, we always act in the best interests of the client.
If we need to write to your GP or NHS Health Care Professional then we will discuss our clinical reasoning for this activity and request you to sign a third-party consent form.
When we complete a medico-legal template supplied by the referring organisation then we will only report honest and factual information which is objective and supported with clinical reasoning.
Our software programmes are protected with ultimate protection software which is constantly updated by the manufacture to meet any new cyber threats. Management policies and procedures are in place and a range of structural security is present.
1. The Right to be informed
2. The right of access
3. The right of rectification
4. The right of erasure
5. The right to restrict processing
6. The right to data portability
7. The right to object
8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
Personal information that we process for any purposes shall be not be kept for longer than is necessary for the purpose or those purposes.
We are legally bound by statutory requirements to hold your data for:
There may be occasions where we need to keep your records for an indefinite period of time and we may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
We may also retain your personal information where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
We do not sell or distribute your information to any other organization unless you have consented and/or contracted us to do so.
If you’re personal and sensitive data should change then please inform us immediately in order for our Practitioners to update your personal records and clinical notes? We have a duty under GDPR to inform all other parties of any such changes.
If you wish to contact us for any aspect in regards to your data and/or you have subscribed to our newsletter and subsequently decide that you wish to withdraw your request then you may do so by contacting the clinic or the Practitioner in writing and/or by E-Mail at the clinic address below:
Kevin Anthony Walsh
Joy Ayton-Walsh
Gillamoor House
77A Ravensden Road
Renhold
Bedford
Bedfordshire
MK41 0JY
Tel: 07979 390166
info@kevinanthonywalsh.co.uk
joy@kevinanthonywalsh.co.uk
www.kevinanthonywalsh.co.uk
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