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These notes summarise the key points for SPF P1.2. Describe the Legal Responsibilities of Maintaining and Protecting Patients' Information for dental nurses.

Core Responsibilities

• Use patient information only for authorised work purposes.
• Keep patient information confidential and secure at all times.
• Access only the records you need to perform your role or task.
• Share information only via approved routes and with people who have a legitimate need.
• Identify and forward patient rights requests promptly to the appropriate person.
• Report suspected breaches, near misses and unsafe shortcuts immediately so the practice can contain and assess them.

Exam Focus

• Health information is sensitive and requires strong protection.
• Confidentiality covers conversations, screens, documents, messages and devices.
• UK GDPR principles include lawfulness, fairness, transparency, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity, confidentiality and accountability.
• Subject access requests may be made in ordinary language and must be handled correctly.
• Dental nurses must not use shared logins, personal phones, personal email or unapproved tools for identifiable patient information.
• Report incidents promptly to allow the practice to contain any breach and assess its impact.