Privacy notices - Allied Health Professionals

The Highland Council Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) support people who require Paediatric Dietetics, Paediatric Community Physiotherapy, Paediatric Occupational Therapy, and Paediatric, or Adult Community, Speech and Language Therapy. 

We store your personal contact information on a database and in paper and electronic files for clinical and therapeutic purposes, and monitoring therapeutic equipment. We are committed to ensuring we store your data securely and protect it using a combination of security safeguards such as locked filing cabinets and password protected IT systems.

We will be unable to work with and support you effectively

We are supporting substantial public interest in doing so (Article 9(2)(g) of GDPR) and are part of the management of the health and social care system (article 9(2)(h).  We deliver AHP Services in order to provide an important service to the public, and the use of personal information is a necessary part of us doing that.

• Access your data
• Change personal data
• Delete personal data
• Restrict processing of personal data

Find out more about your rights

We share this information with other professionals when in the vital interest to you or your child / young person. This is usually health, social care or education / early years colleagues.

Associated regulations are The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and the Additional Support for Learning (Scotland) Act 2004.

Health records are kept for a limited time and this is noted below for your information:

• Adult general hospital records - 6 years after the date of the last entry
• Maternity records - 25 years after the birth of the last child
• Children’s and young people’s records - until the child or young person’s 25th birthday
• Mental health records – 20 years (minimum) after the date of the last contact.

There are some exceptions to this so do check with the AHP dept.

Your personal information is not subject to automated decision making or profiling.

The data controller is The Highland Council

​Data Protection Officer
Highland Council Headquarters
Glenurquhart Road
Inverness
IV3 5NX

Phone: 01463 702029
dpo@highland.gov.uk

If you are unhappy with the way we have processed your personal information you can contact the Information Commissioner:
Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113

https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/