PHARMACY PRIVACY NOTICE

We process your personal information in accordance with relevant policies, for the performance of tasks in the public interest (Healthcare Provision, Treatment, and the Management of Healthcare Systems).

Please note this Privacy Statement only covers our pharmacy operations. For our online privacy policy, please see footer of our website.

We process your personal data, which includes your name, contact details, prescription medicines and data from other pharmacy and healthcare services we provide to you (including, for example, pharmacy medicines, the New Medicines Service, Flu and COVID Vaccinations, and Stop Smoking Services) for the purposes of:

YOUR CARE

Providing pharmacy services and care to you, and, as appropriate, sharing your information with your GP and other NHS services.

OUR PAYMENTS

Sharing your information with the NHS Business Services Authority, others in the wider NHS, and sometimes Local Authorities, and only limited information to those external to the NHS who negotiate and check the accuracy of our payments.

MANAGEMENT

Sharing only limited information with the NHS Business Services Authority and others within the wider NHS, and sometimes Local Authorities; as well as those external to the NHS who ensure we maintain appropriate professional and service standards (e.g. the General Pharmaceutical Council), and that your declarations, and ours, are accurate.

DATA PROCESSING & ACCURACY

We hold your information 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 process your personal data in the performance of a task in the public interest, for the provision of healthcare and treatment, and the management of healthcare systems. A pharmacist is responsible for the confidentiality of your information. You may object to us holding your information, however this may impair the services we are able to provide to you. You may also lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Chesire, SK9 5AF. Please ask us if you want more information.

DATA PROTECTION OFFICERS

Wellway Pharmacy Limited:

(Covers our Morpeth and Pegswood Sites):

Sharon Williams MRPharmS, Superintendent Pharmacist

Email: directors@wellwaycentral.co.uk

Telephone: (+44) 01670 510 005

Head Office: Wellway Pharmacy Limited, Wellway Surgery, Wellway, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1BJ

Central (Pharmacy) Ashington Limited:

(Covers our Ashington Site):

Susan Dixon MRPharmS, Superintendent Pharmacist

Email: directors@wellwaycentral.co.uk

Telephone: (+44) 01670 856 633

Head Office: Central (Pharmacy) Ashington Limited, Lintonville Surgery, Lintonville Terrace, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9UT