Confidentiality and Use of Patient Information
For the purpose of your present and future medical treatment, details of your medical care will be recorded.
Some use may be made of this information for research purposes and to indicate the kind of future health services which patients may require; some will be processed on a computer.
At all times great care is taken to ensure that high standards of confidentiality are maintained in respect of all information held.
The “Data Protection Act 1998” gives you the right of access to any personal information which NHS Lanarkshire holds about you, either in manual records or on its computers.
If you wish to apply for access to your data, or if you would like more information about your rights under the Act you should, in the first instance, contact the Medical Records Department at 01355 584 601.
Hairmyres Hospital
Eaglesham Road
East Kilbride
G75 8RG
Telephone: 01355 585 000
Fax: 01355 584 473