GDPR Impact on GP Practices: Compliance and Data Protection

This report explores the significant impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on General Practitioner (GP) practices within the EU healthcare sector. It highlights the challenges faced by health centers and clinics in maintaining data integrity and the changes required in their operations. The report reviews literature on GDPR regulations, their implications for general practices, and their impact on patient and healthcare practices. It suggests actions for GPs to retain efficiency and reliability, such as training and organizational assessments. Furthermore, it proposes evaluation approaches like service user feedback and system monitoring to measure the effectiveness of implemented solutions, emphasizing the importance of data security and compliance with GDPR.

The impact of new GDPR re
gulation for GP Practices

PROBLEM STATEMENT
•The implementation of GDPR regulations has highly affec
ted EU health care sector.
•The overall practices of health is changed (Chassang, 201
7). Due to these operations are been affected.
•Also, health centre and clinics are facing difficulties to ma
intain integrity of data (Sousa and et.al., 2018).

LITERATURE REVIEW
THEME 1: GDPR REGULATION
•It is a general data protection act related t
o protecting of data and information (Love
ll and Foy, 2018).
•It protects right of individual in maintaini
ng confidentiality of data.

THEME 2: IMPLICATION OF GDPR ON PRACTICES OF GE
NERAL PRACTICES
 According to Tikkinen-Piri, Rohunen and Markkula, (2018) GDP
R will highly affect general practices. This is because organisation
will have to comply with laws and regulation.
 They will have to protect data and information. Moreover, busines
s will have to provide information in specified time (Lovell and Fo
y, 2018).
 Besides this, it requires monitoring of data and practices ensuring i
ts protection.
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 THEME 3: IMPACT OF GDPR REGULATION FOR PAT
IENT AND HEALTH CARE PRACTICES
 As stated by Chassang, (2017) there is a great impact of G
DPR on data regulation in health care practices. The act has ena
bled hospitals and health care agencies to protect patient data.
 For this there are various policies and procedure developed. Als
o, changes are been made in maintaining integrity and confident
iality of data. In compliance with GDPR regulation staff collects
and share data through a proper procedure.

Source: Health information privacy law and policy, 2018

ACTIONS FOR SOLVING THE IS
SUE
• In order to deal with the issue following act
ions can be taken so that GP can retain the
efficiency and reliability of their duties (Wi
lkinson, 2018).
• Training and awareness campaigns can be
conducted so that GP can understand the i
mplications of GDPR.
• Organisational assessment must be conduc
ed so that existing data policies can be revi
ewed and necessary improvements can be
made.
Source: Top 5 Ways DLP can help
with GDPR compliance, 2017

APPROACHES TO EVALUATE
THE SOLUTION
• Evaluation has been one of the significant approach to measure the
effectiveness of the actions. To measure the effectiveness and accu
rate execution of the discussed actions following approaches can b
e used by the practitioners:
• The GP can take feedback from the service users that if they are sa
tisfied with the improved data security policy or if they are paying
any kind of fees for accessing data (Wilkinson, 2018).
• The effectiveness and efficiency of the systems must be monitored
and tested regularly to avoid the security breach events.

REFLECTION

RECOMMENDATIONS

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Lovell, M. and Foy, M.A., 2018. General Data Protection Regulation May
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Tikkinen-Piri, C., Rohunen, A. and Markkula, J., 2018. EU General Data
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Wilkinson, G., 2018. General Data Protection Regulation: No silver bullet
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