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GDPR for Dental Practices and Data Governance
Dental practices hold some of the most sensitive data there is. We help you handle it properly, with clear policies, sensible processes and a team who knows what to do when something goes wrong.
What Does GDPR Mean for a Dental Practice?
For a dental practice, GDPR means handling patient and staff personal data lawfully, securely and transparently under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Health records count as special category data, so they need extra care. Practices need clear privacy notices, proper access controls, a way to handle subject access requests and a process for data breaches. Foxstern Dental Growth Partners helps practices put these in place and keep them working.
Data protection often sits at the bottom of the list until something goes wrong. A misdirected email. A patient asking for their records. A laptop that goes missing. Then everyone wants to know what the policy says.
We help you get ahead of that. Siobhán Allwood-Oke has run practices day to day, so our approach fits how reception, clinical and management teams actually work. The result is governance your team can follow, not a folder nobody opens.
What Our GDPR and Data Governance Support Includes
Data Mapping
We help you work out what personal data the practice holds, where it lives, who can access it and why you hold it.
Policies and Privacy Notices
We help you write clear data protection policies and patient privacy notices that match how your practice really uses data.
Subject Access Requests
We set up a simple process for handling requests for records, so your team responds properly and within the legal time limit.
Breach Handling
We help you build a clear process for spotting, recording and assessing data breaches, including when to report to the ICO.
Supplier Checks
We help you review the software and third parties that handle your data, including marketing, CRM and messaging tools.
Team Training
We help your team understand everyday data protection, from front desk conversations to emails, phones and messaging apps.
Not Sure Where Your Data Risks Are?
Book a free growth audit and we will talk through how your practice handles data. There is no obligation and you leave with useful findings either way.
Book your free growth auditWho Is GDPR and Data Governance Support For?
GDPR and data governance support suits dental practices that want confidence in how they handle patient and staff data. It is particularly useful for practices adding new software, CRM systems or online booking, groups bringing several sites under one approach, and practices that have had a data incident or a difficult subject access request and want to tighten things up.
Bringing in new systems? See our systems and automation work, or keep governance on track with ongoing compliance support. Or see all our compliance and CQC support.
Not Sure Where to Start?
How Does GDPR and Data Governance Support Work?
We start with what you have and build from there.
- Review what you hold. We map the personal data in your practice and how it moves between people and systems.
- Spot the gaps. We compare your current policies and processes against UK GDPR requirements and flag the risks.
- Put fixes in place. We help you update policies, privacy notices and processes in a sensible order.
- Train and maintain. We help your team understand their part and keep governance reviewed over time.