At Eating Disorder Centre Cork (EDCC), we respect your right to privacy. Therefore, discretion and confidentiality are critically important to our service. We will only use information about you in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and the General Data Protection Regulations 2018, and any other relevant legislation or regulation.
Very brief factual accounts of each therapy session are kept by psychotherapists. These notes are the property of EDCC and are kept in secure filing cabinets and on Core Net. Only psychotherapists (and on occasion the clinical manager) will have access to this information. In accordance with our professional governing bodies, all clinical files must be kept for seven years. At the end of that year all information is shredded.
Data We Hold
We hold your name, mobile contact, address, and other information regarding your physical, mental, and social status. You will have given these details to us, when you attended the centre for your initial assessment. At that meeting you will also have signed to agree to therapists at EDCC, liaising directly with your GP.
Very brief factual accounts of each therapy session are kept by psychotherapists. These notes are the property of EDCC and are kept in secure filing cabinets. Only psychotherapist (and on occasion the clinical manager) will have access to this information. In accordance with our professional governing bodies, all clinical files must be kept for seven years. At the end of that year all information is shredded.
