Privacy Notice

WALSALL LPC PRIVACY NOTICE 

Users of the website

The Walsall LPC website primarily exists as a resource for community pharmacists and staff.

In dealing with Contact form queries from the website we may have access to limited information (name, contact email address, phone, postal address) which will be handled respectfully in line with this notice. Walsall LPC do not share information with any third parties.

To community pharmacies 

We may process your personal data (as well as your community pharmacy data), for example, your name, address, contact details (and appropriate information for payment of the statutory levy), to:

• represent and support you, as provided by the LPC constitution
• provide information to you on training events, news, services, regulatory issues, best practice and patient safety
• provide your details, as appropriate, to NHS England, NHS Business Services Authority, Primary Care Support England, Commissioners of NHS services, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, those who assist management of the LPC and other organisations for mutual support and advice.

We hold your information only for as long as advised by the NHS. You have a right to a copy of the information we hold about you, generally without charge. You may seek to correct any inaccurate information.

We may process commercial and personal contact data in:

• performance of a task in the public interest
• provision of healthcare and treatment and for health data
• management of healthcare systems

We do not solicit or hold sensitive data on individuals.

An appropriate person is responsible for the confidentiality of data. You may object to us holding your information and may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. Please ask if you want more information.

To patients and community pharmacies

We may process limited patient health information as part of locally commissioned services carried out by community pharmacies, to assist with:

• data management
• collating limited health data (no patient names are identified in this data) from community pharmacies
• providing data to the commissioner or the person paying for the service, for example NHS England or a Local Authority

The health data are shared only with the service commissioner, not with third parties.