Privacy Statement
The practice takes the security of your information very seriously and therefore
employs robust security measures in all its computerised systems. This web site,
http://www.riversidesurgerywirral.nhs.uk/, is operated by Wirral Health
Informatics Service (WHIS). As a department of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, WHIS
is obliged to adhere to the Trust's "Code of Conduct for handling personal
identifiable information" as well as other standards for the protection of
information. This web site is therefore subject to those safeguards in addition
to the Surgery's own standards for data protection. e which require you to send us information across the internet. The facilities found under 'Online Facilities', e.g. ordering repeat prescriptions, are the property of and are operated by Egton Medical Information Systems Ltd. Those facilities employ SSL encryption to protect the information you send. Egton Medical Information Systems' Privacy Policy relating to those facilities is outlined here: https://access.e-mis.co.uk/privacy.asp The facilities to e-mail us, at the end of this privacy statement and at the end of the copyright statement, do not use any particular extra security measures and therefore you may prefer not to include any information which you would want to remain private.
This web site does not use cookies.
In order to monitor usage, our computer systems log the IP addresses of computers from which people visit the practice web site. These IP addresses are stored securely for a certain time and are accessible exclusively to authorized technical staff of WHIS. They are used as part of a set of data which produces reports about how much the site is used by the general public. IP addresses do not allow us to trace your identity. The most detail available to us from an IP address is the name of the Internet Service Provider which owns it.
If you have any questions regarding the security of your information while using this web site, please e-mail (wih-tr.content@nhs.net)