Privacy Notice - Care Quality Commission 

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an organisation established in English law by the Health and Social Care Act. The CQC is the regulator for English health and social care services to ensure that safe care is provided. They inspect and produce reports on all English general practices in a rolling 5 year program. The law allows CQC to access identifiable patient data as well as requiring this practice to share certain types of data with them in certain circumstances, for instance following a significant safety incident. 

Find out more information about the CQC.

• Data Controller contact details: Grove House Surgery, 80 Pryors Lane, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO21 4JB
• Data Protection Officer contact details: The Data Protection Officer (DPO) for Grove House Surgery is: Laura Taw – IG and Data Protection Officer for GP Practices in West Sussex, South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit.
• Purpose of the processing: To provide the Secretary of State and others with information and reports on the status, activity and performance of the NHS. The provide specific reporting functions on indentified.
• Lawful basis for processing: The legal basis will be: Article 6(1)(c) “processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.” 
  And 
  Article 9(2)(h) “processing is necessary for the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services on the basis of Union or Member State law or pursuant to contract with a health professional and subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph 3;”We will also recognise your rights established under UK case law collectively known as the “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”*
• Recipient or categories of recipients of the shared data: The data will be shared with the Care Quality Commission, its officers and staff and members of the inspection teams that visit us from time to time. 
• Rights to object: You have the right to object to some or all of the information being shared with NHS Digital. Contact the Data Controller or the practice.
• Right to access and correct: You have the right to access the data that is being shared and have any inaccuracies corrected. There is no right to have accurate medical records deleted except when ordered by a court of Law.
• Retention period: You have the right to access the data that is being shared and have any inaccuracies corrected. There is no right to have accurate medical records deleted except when ordered by a court of Law.
• Right to Complain: You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, or calling their helpline Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate) There are National Offices for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, (see ICO website)

* “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality”, common law is not written out in one document like an Act of Parliament. It is a form of law based on previous court cases decided by judges; hence, it is also referred to as 'judge-made' or case law. The law is applied by reference to those previous cases, so common law is also said to be based on precedent.