Privacy notice for Children 

When you visit our dental practice, we need to collect some information about you.  What type of information do we record? Personal details such as your address, date of birth, phone number and email address   

This is for the provision of dental health care, providing treatment plans and recalls 

• Personal details of family members or emergency contact details ·
•  Medical history including your GP’s name and address · 
• Information about the treatment we have proposed and provided ·
•  Notes of conversations or incidents that might occur for which a record needs to be kept · 
• Correspondence to other healthcare professions such as referrals. 

Why do we need to keep this information? 

We need to keep records of personal information regarding our patients in order to provide safe and appropriate dental care and treatment. It is also used to maintain accurate treatment records. We also need to process personal data about you if we are providing care under NHS arrangements and to ensure the proper management and administration of the NHS. 

What do we do with your information? 

We will keep your information safe. Only the people involved in your care will be able to see your information. We will not share your information with anyone else unless we are required to by law or where it’s really important for your health such as if we need to refer you to another dentist or orthodontist. 

Your Rights 

Where a child is not considered competent to make their own decisions, consent will be obtained from a person with parental responsibility. Where a child is deemed competent (Gillick competent), they may make decisions about their own data. 

Retention periods 

For children, we will retain your dental records for 11 years or until you reach the age of 25 (or 26th birthday if a young person finished treatment at 17 years old) (whichever is longer). For details of your rights under data protection laws, including the right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk), please contact our Data Protection Officer via email at reception@boroughbridgedental.co.uk