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RA-Dental Limited customer privacy notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

  • Contact details

  • What information we collect, use, and why

  • Lawful bases and data protection rights

  • Where we get personal information from

  • How long we keep information

  • Who we share information with

  • How to complain

 

Contact details

Email: ra-dental@outlook.com

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide patient care, services, pharmaceutical products and other goods:

  • Name, address and contact details

  • Gender

  • Date of birth

  • Health information (including medical conditions, allergies, medical requirements and medical history)

  • Test results (including psychological evaluations, scans, bloods, x-rays, tissue tests and genetic tests)

We also collect the following special category information to provide patient care, services, pharmaceutical products and other goods. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature:

  • Racial or ethnic origin

  • Health information

We collect or use the following personal information for information updates, marketing or market research purposes:

  • Names and contact details

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

  • Names and contact details

  • Witness statements and contact details

  • Relevant information from previous investigations

  • Customer or client accounts and records

  • Information relating to health and safety (including incident investigation details and reports and accident book records)

  • Correspondence

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide patient care, services, pharmaceutical products and other goods are:

  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for information updates, marketing or market research purposes are:

  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

 

Where we get personal information from

  • Directly from you

  • Other health and care providers

  • None

How long we keep information

For information on how long we keep personal information, see our retention schedule further down on this page or at https://www.radental.co.uk/privacy-policy (redirects to this page)

Who we share information with

Others we share personal information with

  • Other health providers (eg GPs and consultants)

  • Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons

  • Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with

Duty of confidentiality

We are subject to a common law duty of confidentiality. However, there are circumstances where we will share relevant health and care information. These are where:

  • you’ve provided us with your consent (we have taken it as implied to provide you with care, or you have given it explicitly for other uses);

  • we have a legal requirement (including court orders) to collect, share or use the data;

  • on a case-by-case basis, the public interest to collect, share and use the data overrides the public interest served by protecting the duty of confidentiality (for example sharing information with the police to support the detection or prevention of serious crime);

  • If in England or Wales – the requirements of The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 are satisfied; or

  • If in Scotland – we have the authority to share provided by the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, the Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care or other similar governance and scrutiny process.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

RA-Dental Limited Retention Schedule

This schema details how long RA-Dental Limited will retain record types, as set out in the NHSE Records Management Code of Practice.

Record type: Adult Health Records

Retention period: 8 years

Record type: Dental Records

Retention period: 11 years

Record type: Childrens Records

Retention period: Retain until 25th birthday, or 26th if the patient was 17 when treatment ended

Record type: Clinical Audit

Retention period: 5 years from the year in which the audit was conducted

Record type: Inspection of equipment records

Retention period: 11 years 

Record type: Staff record

Retention period: Until 75th birthday

Record type: Staff training records

Retention period:

Clinical training records - to be retained until 75th birthday or six years after the staff member leaves, whichever is the longer.
Statutory and mandatory training records - to be kept for ten years after training completed.

Other training records - keep for six years after training completed.

Record type: Disciplinary records

Retention period: 6 years once the case is heard and any appeal process completed

Record type: Financial transaction records and invoices

Retention period: 6 years from the close of the financial year to which they relate

Record type: Complaints

Retention period: 10 years

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