Confidentiality

Information about you is treated in complete confidence by doctors and staff, some of whom will be non-clinical. If you wish us to discuss any aspect of your treatment with a relative or friend, please inform us. Test results will only be given to the patient or to the parents/guardians of children.

All information held about you on our computer system is in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, under which you are able to access your medical records. As part of our commitment to continuing high standards of care, we may use data, from which all individual identities have been removed, for research and quality assurance purposes.