Choose Pharmacy — Sharing Your Information
What happens to the information you share during an NHS Wales pharmacy consultation.
Sharing with your GP and hospital clinicians
Where relevant, the details of your consultation will be shared with your GP and/or hospital clinicians to help them provide your care. This ensures you receive seamless and safe care, and allows your information to follow you wherever care is provided, in a secure manner.
Examples of information that may be shared electronically include:
- Medicines or vaccinations provided
- Advice given during the consultation
- Any follow-up needed by your GP or hospital clinicians
If you do not want your consultation shared, please tell your pharmacy professional at the time of the consultation.
Sharing with other NHS organisations
Your information may be shared with other NHS organisations to:
- Make sure the service is being provided appropriately and help plan future services;
- Make sure the pharmacy is being paid appropriately for the services that are provided.
Wherever possible, anonymised data (information that does not identify you) will be used.
Learn more
See our Common Ailments service for what a Choose Pharmacy consultation covers, or read our privacy policy for how we handle personal information more generally.
Information sourced from Digital Health and Care Wales (dhcw.nhs.wales).