The General Data Protection Regulation is a new law that comes into effect in Europe on 25th May 2018, it replaces previous Data Protection laws from 1998 and 2003.

This law governs how your personal data is stored, accessed, shared and processed. The law comes from the European Union and is complex, but in essence it regulates data controllers and provides rights to data subjects.

It is an important law and as a result we are implementing the necessary changes to ensure we are compliant with this law.

As your GP we are data controllers-which means we are responsible for important personal data that is held on file in the practice about you. Our practice has a Privacy Policy is in place as can be viewed via this Privacy Policy link.