Medical shredding service from an experienced medical shredding company
Independent healthcare practitioners, general practices, and public health centres all store large volumes of confidential patient information and medical records on-site – in some cases even more than your average business, law firm, or architectural practice. To protect your client’s privacy, the UK’s Data Protection Act holds medical professionals and facilities accountable to prescribed security standards. You are legally obliged to store and destroy medical data correctly, which is why a secure medical shredding service is integral to your practice.
Medical staff, be they doctors, nurses, pharmacists or administrators, must be aware of their data protection responsibilities ensuring that all paper and digital files are disposed of securely. In fact, it is wise to implement an organisation-wide policy for medical shredding, as well as records management and document scanning, to ensure all staff maintain a good level of awareness. Should you fail to comply with the regulations, you could face expensive financial penalties, reputational damage, and possibly, prison.
Different documents are subject to different retention periods. Your patients’ confidential records may be housed in a safe document storage facility, but should they reach a certain age, they must be destroyed. Due diligence is essential here and it’s your responsibility to know when – and how – to dispose of the data that you no longer need to keep. You can achieve this by putting in place a proper medical shredding procedure to track documents that have expired past their statutory period.
Our medical shredding service
Information can be stored on a range of media – not just paper. As a medical shredding company we can dispose of X-rays, CDs, DVDs and magnetic tapes, as well as employee or staff records, ID cards, application forms and patient files. Our shredding costs are competitive and bespoke quotes can be arranged on request.
All shredding is done safely and securely at your premises. Or, if you prefer, our off-site shredding service can come and collect your data for disposal. We will only provide you with a Certificate of Destruction once we are satisfied that all the data has been destroyed correctly. What’s more, the paper documents can be recycled after shredding, which contributes to your corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Why Access Records Management?
Our secure shredding service is a critical and cost-effective component of your data retention policy. It complies with the disposal section of the Data Protection Act for doctor surgeries, dental surgeries, medical centres, hospitals and clinics across the UK. It’s a reassuring solution that eliminates any risk of non-compliance or expensive penalties.
Additionally, our document storage and secure medical shredding services will help you safeguard your patients’ privacy, protect your establishment in the event of a security breach, free up space previously reserved for storage and prevent identity theft.
At Access Records Management we can also work with you to review all your data in line with regulations. This will ensure you know what information needs to be retained and for how long – as well as how and when it needs to be disposed of.
Contact our team today to get a quote for our medical shredding service, by completing the form on this page.