Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of eye health services in the UK and a world-class centre of excellence for ophthalmic research and education. We have a reputation, developed over two centuries, for providing the highest quality of ophthalmic care. Our 2,300 staff are committed to sustaining and building on our pioneering legacy and ensuring we remain at the cutting edge of developments in ophthalmology.
We need the information so that we can:-
For general information about how your data is used in health and social care see https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/what-you-need-know
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us by you, either directly to us or by the person that referred you to us (for example your GP or optometrist), or another person caring for you (for example, a community nurse, social worker, or carer).
We use the information that you have given us in order to provide quality care.
We may share some of this information with other people supporting your care (such as your GP or carer) in accordance with the care plan we have agreed with you.
Under the UK Data Protection Act the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information is to perform work relating to your contract.
Your information is securely stored. We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements.
You can find details of how long we keep information for in the Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2016.
We will only use your personal information for the purposes set out above unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose or where there is another lawful basis for processing.
The quality of care that your enjoy is based on evidence derived from research. As a national and international centre of excellence, we undertake a lot of research at Moorfields so the care of tomorrow is the best it can be. We might invite you to take part in research, but we will never use your personally identifiable data in research without your permission. To find out more, Research opportunities at Moorfields (ROAM) | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We do not share you data with insurance companies or use it for marketing purposes.
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. However, where information is part of your health record, we are obliged to keep records of any changes, and so the incorrect information may not be erased, but instead would be crossed out with the correct information entered with a note.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. but as we cannot provide care if we cannot process your information, it is unlikely that we will be able to comply with your request.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at the address below if you wish to make a request.
Last updated: November 2023
Last reviewed: June 2024
If you wish to receive a copy of the information we have, then please write to:-
Health Records Department
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
162 City Road
London
EC1V 2PD
If you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal information then please write to:-
Data Protection Officer
Information Governance Department
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
162 City Road
London
EC1V 2PD
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
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Please note as recipient of this email:
This email is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee please do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it or any attachments. Instead, please email it back to the sender and then immediately permanently delete it.
Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the sender of this email, this communication may contain privileged or confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under English law and this information may not be used or disclosed except for the purpose for which it has been sent.
Contracts may only be concluded on behalf of Moorfields Private by authorised signatories and not by email communication. No employee or agent of Moorfields Private is authorised to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Moorfields Private with another party by email without the express written confirmation of an authorised signatory.
Any views expressed by the sender of this email are not necessarily those of Moorfields Private. Moorfields Private employees are expressly requested, among other things, not to make any defamatory, threatening or obscene statements and not to infringe any legal right (including any infringement of copyright) by email communication. Any such communication is contrary to Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundations Trust Internet and email policy (see below) and outside the scope of the employment of the individual concerned. Moorfields Private and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will not accept any liability in respect of such a communication, and the employee responsible will be personally liable for any damages or other liabilities arising.
The information contained in this email and any reply may be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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Please note: Moorfields Private does not generally engage in systematic monitoring activities although it reserves the right to do so where there is reason to believe that misuse of its computing facilities is occurring.