Data Protection Officer Service

Suffolk and North East Essex is made up of three Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs); Ipswich and East Suffolk, West Suffolk and North East Essex. Working across all three is the Information Governance Team. The team is led by Paul Cook who is the Head of Information Governance and the Data Protection Officer for all three CCGs.

The team offers a Data Protection Officer Service to the GPs across all three CCGs. The service offers support, advice and guidance around Data Protection legislation to around half of GP’s in Suffolk and every GP in North East Essex.

The team support the GPs in various different ways including:

• Complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Sharing information correctly
• Making sure that the GP and the providers they work with look after patient data securely
• Helping them respond to requests from patients wanting to exercise their rights

The practices the CCG are Data Protection Officer for are below.

• Abbey Field Medical Centre
• Ambrose Avenue Group Practice
• Bluebell Surgery
• Caradoc Surgery
• Clacton Community Practices
• Colchester Medical Practice
• Colne Medical Centre
• Creffield Medical Group
• East Lynne Medical Centre
• Fronks Road Family Surgery
• Great Bentley Surgery
• Harewood Surgery
• Highwoods Surgery
• Lawford Surgery
• Mayflower Medical Centre
• Mill Road Surgery
• North Clacton Medical Group
• Old Road Surgery
• Ranworth Surgery
• Rowhedge & University of Essex
• St James Surgery
• The Ardleigh Surgery
• The Riverside Health Centre
• Thorpe Surgery
• Tiptree Medical Centre
• Tollgate Health Centre
• Turner Road Surgery
• Walton Medical Centre
• Mersea Island Medical Centre
• Winstree Medical Practice
• Wivenhoe Surgery

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