Privacy notice for BMJ Clinical Champions BMJ Group (‘BMJ’) has clinical champions to support with the promotion of BMJ Best Practice in hospitals and medical schools. Clinical champions may include healthcare professionals, allied health professionals or medical students. This notice explains what information we will hold, what we will do with it and why. What data does BMJ collect about clinical champions and why? We collect your name, email address, professional group and level, area of practice, organisation, your professional networks and social media channels. BMJ needs this information in order to keep in contact with you as a clinical champion. If you aren’t able to provide this information, we may not be able to have you on the clinical champion programme.
Type of information What it is used for
Lawful basis
Name, email address, area of practice, role (e.g. doctor, nurse, pharmacist) seniority, area of practice Regulatory registration number, restrictions on your registration, conflicts of interest Membership of professional networks, social media presence (if relevant) qualifications, accreditations and memberships
This information is necessary in order to manage the clinical champions programme. If you are unable or unwilling to provide this information, we may not be able to include you in the Clinical Champions programme.
Necessary for contract
This is necessary to ensure that you are properly accredited and that BMJ can mitigate against any conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest can include paid or unpaid work in the fields of health, research, publishing, or another relevant field, and other employment, social, historical or financial links to relevant organisations. In order to make the most of the Clinical Champions Programme, we will ask that you provide additional information that would help to champion BMJ products and services. If you do not supply this information, then you will still be able to participate, but may not get the most out of the programme or may have a smaller impact. Where you provide expert advice relating to a topic, and this data is relevant to that topic, we will need to retain this information as it relates to the quality and reliability of the information.
Necessary for contract
Legitimate interests
Necessary for contract
Do you share my data? No, we do not share your data with other organisations. Only people working for BMJ with a legitimate reason to access your data to administer the Clinical Champions Programme will have access to your personal data. How long will you keep information about me? We will keep your contact details including email address for three years after you have left the clinical champion programme. We will keep records of your activities, contributions and/or experiences indefinitely, along with evidence of your expertise in those matters, as they may provide important information for delivering evidence-based healthcare.
What are my rights? You have rights over your data. You can contact us if you would like to: - Have a copy of your personal data - Correct inaccurate information about you
- Erase information about you - Restrict how your data is used - Object to our use of your data - Have your data ported to another organisation
You can find advice about your rights on the website for the Information Commissioner’s Office (the regulator for data protection law in the UK).
If you have any concerns or complaints, please contact us. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you’d like to.
Wherever you are in the world, you can get in touch with BMJ through our email address: dataprotectionlead@bmj.com. As required under the GDPR (Article 27), BMJ also has a data protection representative in the EU:
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