GP working from abroad

From January 2024 one of our GPs may be accessing your medical records/data from Australia. 

She will be using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which is a security mechanism that encrypts your personal data between the laptop and a server. The GP’s connection also has Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to meet the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) security requirements for accessing data abroad. 

We have been in contact with our Data Protection Officer who assures us that data protection is in place to enable her to do this work in both UK and Australia.

If any direct care is to be carried out by the GP, consent would be gained from the patient before this took place.

For further information please go to data protection on our website 

www.hilltopsmedicalcentre.org/practice-information/data-protection

www.hilltopsmedicalcentre.org/practice-information/privacy-policy