An additional reason for obtaining the NHS Number relates to Nirvana Eye Hospital Hospital’s intention to access the UK Child Protection Information Sharing (CP-IS) system in order to facilitate the sharing of information between health and local authorities where a child may be at risk of being neglected, maltreated or abused. Nirvana Eye Hospital ensures all the information it holds is kept safe and confidential.
You have the option to withhold your personal information, in which case we will only share an anonymised record of your treatment to PHIN, but will not provide your NHS Number (or equivalent) or postcode. If you tell us that you are not happy for Orbit Eye Hospital to pass on your NHS Number and Postcode to PHIN we will indicate this on your Registration Form. If you subsequently change your mind, please contact the facility where you were treated. Contact details are available on this website.
Subject to applicable data protection laws Orbit Eye Hospital is required to provide hospital performance data to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), which publishes information on the quality and cost of privately funded healthcare.
PHIN’s goal is to help patients make more informed choices about where to go for treatment.Orbit Eye Hospital will not supply your name, date of birth, or full address to PHIN. PHIN is only concerned with understanding the treatment that hospitals and doctors provide, whether that treatment was safe and effective, and whether there were any complications.
Any processing of personal data shall be made in accordance with the Data Protection Laws. Publication will be made via the PHIN website in a format that will allow patients requiring hospital treatment and their doctors to search for local private hospitals by procedure and to compare how they perform in terms of quality and safety based on treatment data. Individuals are then able to make informed choices; which consultant to see, which treatment option to follow, and at which hospital to be treated. This information will not be in a form where individuals can be identified.
An additional reason for obtaining the NHS Number relates to Nirvana Eye Hospital Hospital’s intention to access the UK Child Protection Information Sharing (CP-IS) system in order to facilitate the sharing of information between health and local authorities where a child may be at risk of being neglected, maltreated or abused. Nirvana Eye Hospital ensures all the information it holds is kept safe and confidential.
You have the option to withhold your personal information, in which case we will only share an anonymised record of your treatment to PHIN, but will not provide your NHS Number (or equivalent) or postcode. If you tell us that you are not happy for Orbit Eye Hospital to pass on your NHS Number and Postcode to PHIN we will indicate this on your Registration Form. If you subsequently change your mind, please contact the facility where you were treated. Contact details are available on this website.