Adult Nutrition and Dietetic service
Our Adult Nutrition and Dietetic Service is a city wide service supporting adults (16 years and older) with a wide range of nutrition and health problems. On referral, the service will offer a consultation at a local clinic or if needed a home visit (including care homes). The service also provides education groups for cardiac and respiratory problems as these are shown to be effective in supporting people to improve their lifestyles.
Purpose of processing
Leeds Community Healthcare (LCH) through the Adult Dietetic Service work with individuals to identify the changes that are needed and support the person and any carers by providing practical and accurate information. This requires the processing of patient data. The reasons for processing patient data are:
- To provide general advice to the public/health professionals around nutrition and hydration
- To have contact and next of kin information for staff in case of an emergency
- To be able to effectively provide treatment to the patient
- To maintain an accurate clinical record
Source of data:
- Other health professionals
- SystmOne (LCH’s system that holds patients record)
- Directly from Patient
Categories of recipient
- Patient
- Dietetics Service
- Health professionals
Categories of Personal Data
- Demographics
- NHS Number
- Clinical details
- Appointment details
Legal basis of processing
For GDPR purposes Leeds community healthcare’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)e ‘…exercise of official authority…’ and Article 6(1)(b) – ‘…for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party…’ and also Article 6(1)(c) – where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
For the processing of special categories (health) data the basis is Article 9(2)(h) – ‘…health or social care…’. Where we process special categories data for employment or safeguarding purposes the condition is Article 9(2)(b) – processing is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law…