Privacy Policy
Love2Latch – Privacy Policy
As a registrant of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Midwife, I am required to maintain professional standards in all areas of my practice which includes record keeping and the safe storage of my documents. This is clearly covered in the NMC Code of Professional Standards and Behaviour for Nurses and Midwives.
Within the consultation we will discuss family medical history, information regarding your birth and you and your baby’s feeding journey.
I will request a degree of personal information about you/your baby including date of birth, address, phone numbers, email address, NHS Numbers, GP details and others.
I also have an online feedback form to collate statistics on aspects of my services .
If you notice there are any inaccuracies in my documentation, please do contact me as soon as possible so that I can amend accordingly and send you the updated records.
You can request to see any documentation that I have about you and your baby. With your permission, I will be recording the care I provide in your baby’s Personal Child Health Record (red book) and sending you an electronic copy of your baby’s records.
I work as a Private Tongue Tie Practitioner and IBCLC alone, therefore only I will be taking details of your medical history and answering my mobile should you call/text or email.
I will write in your baby’s Personal Child Health Record or, if not available during the consultation, provide a separate page for you to insert into the book.
I also use an electronic healthcare software program called Cliniko to record care provided within our appointment and ongoing communications.
If I send you electronic information via email, I will have your email address on my email account.
The same applies to your telephone number if we converse on the phone or via text.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regulate the care I provide in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Standards and Behaviour For Nurses and Midwives and they state that records are kept for 25 years.
I also require the collection of your data, for ongoing continuity of care to ensure that I can give the best care possible.
Your information will be used in the ongoing care of your current and future baby’s care in follow up appointments or discussions.
Your information will not be shared with anyone without your knowledge or sold on to any other businesses.
The exception to this will be if I have any safeguarding concerns about the safety of your baby or children. I am then professionally and legally obligated to share relevant information with appropriate agencies without your consent to enhance the safeguarding of all children.
Annually, I collate statistics on the number of visits, type of feeding situations, comparison of age, sex of baby and feeding outcomes. The information will be lifted from your notes but collated anonymously for my audit purposes.
Electronic notes are kept within Cliniko (password protected software programme) on my password protected laptop. I do not store any hard copies of any records. Any information stored on my mobile telephone is protected by a passcode.
Documentation within the Personal Child Health Record and the electronic copy I provide to you will belong to you for you to share with family or other health professionals that may require the information.
Regarding the confidentiality of our conversations, please do not share direct exerts of your notes on social media sites without first discussing with me.
During the appointment, you will be asked to sign a consent form to give me permission provide the expected level of care for your baby and also to create electronic notes and to email you a copy.
That my documentation will provide transparency of care for you as parents.
If you have any concerns about anything that you experience with me or have any improvement suggestions then please contact me directly via email or post.
Email: Jas@love2latch.co.uk
Address: Holistic Therapy Room, 15 Osyth Close, Brackmills Industrial Estate, Northampton, NN4 7DY.
Links on www.love2latch.co.uk.
Please note this privacy policy only covers my website and does not cover all sites that can be linked to, or accessed from this site. Therefore, when you are moving to another site you may want to read their own privacy policy also.
This includes if I were to recommend a site to read for your information which I may send you via email or text, but also if you choose to ‘like’ or join any related social media pages.
Information Commissioner’s Office.
General Data Protection Regulation.
NMC Code of Professional Standards and Behaviour For Nurses and Midwives
Jas Nicholson
Registered Midwife
Tongue-tie Practitioner and IBCLC
Northampton
07411442536
www.love2latch.co.uk
jas@love2latch.co.uk