Surgical site infection surveillance privacy notice
Privacy notice for patients participating in surgical site infection surveillance.
Official website: gov.uk00
How to use the service
You can find out more about surgical wound infections online at Surgical site infection (SSI): guidance, data and analysis . If you would like to find out more about UKHSA ’s SSISS , you can contact us at enquiries@ukhsa.gov.uk UKHSA does not have access to the full medical records of patients so if you have had a surgical wound infection and want to see your full medical records you will need to contact the hospital that treated you. If you have any concerns about how your personal information is used and protected by UKHSA , you can contact our Data Protection Officer at data_protectionofficer@dhsc.gov.uk or by writing to: Office of the Data Protection Officer Department of Health and Social Care 1st Floor North 39 Victoria Street London SW1H 0EU You also have the right to contact the ICO if you have any concerns about how we use and protect your personal information. You can do so by calling the ICO ’s helpline on 0303 123 1113, visiting the ICO ’s website or by writing to: Customer Contact Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow SK9 5AF
Processing time
The personal information of surgical patients is kept by UKHSA for 25 years after which time we review it to decide if we need to continue to keep it. If we don’t, then we securely delete your personal information. The exception to this is your phone number and email address, which we only keep for 12 months and then securely delete. If we need to keep your personal information for longer than this, then we will revise this privacy notice to explain the reasons why. This information needs to be kept for this long because infections and related complications that affect patients’ health can sometimes take many years to develop after surgery. UKHSA needs to keep personal information so that it can link to other hospital and mortality records in the future. Patients’ phone numbers and email addresses are only used for the specific purpose of sending automated emails or texts containing the post-discharge wound healing questionnaire, which is why they are only kept for 12 months and then s
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Surgical site infection surveillance privacy notice
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