At Spectrum Community Health CIC, we take our duty to protect your personal information and confidentiality very seriously and take all reasonable steps to keep your data safe.
When you submit information to us, we gather some of the information you provide in order to delivery our services effectively. We also use information to better understand how people use this website, so that we can improve your experience and our website’s performance. This is done through the use of cookies.
Our website privacy notice
This website privacy notice describes how spectrum-sexualhealth.org.uk makes use of the information you give us when you use this website.
If you are asked to provide information when using this website, it will only be used in the ways described in our privacy notices.
This privacy policy was last updated on 02/08/2024.
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us using our get in touch form, and select general enquiries from the drop down menu. Page link: Find out more / Enquiries
What information is being collected through personal submission and how do we collect it?
This website does not actively collect and store any data through input from yourself. Any contact forms on this website store the information requested for 10 days, to ensure the information has been processed (including key holiday periods, as our inboxes are not monitored out of business hours Monday-Friday, or on weekends and bank holidays).
What information is being collected through cookies and how do we use them?
We use cookies for our website analytics procedure, which is classed as observed data. You can read more about how we use cookies in our cookies policy here
Who is collecting information and who is your information being shared with?
For the purposes of this website, Spectrum Community Health CIC collects information with your consent and will only share this information with Solution Group, who maintain the website on our behalf.
For some of our services, we may need to share some information, with your consent, with other healthcare providers or organisations who are working with you. This is explained in our community services data protection policy. We will not share information about you without your consent.
Links from our website
Our website contains links to other websites.
Please note that we have no control over any websites we link to, outside of Spectrum. If you provide information on another website to which we link, we are not responsible for the data protection and privacy of this information.
Always be wary when submitting data to websites. Read the sites data protection and privacy policies fully before providing information.
National Fraud Initiative
Spectrum Community Health CIC has a duty to protect the public funds it administers and as such participates in the National Fraud Initiative. This is an electronic data matching exercise conducted by the Cabinet Office, under statutory powers, for the purposes of preventing and detecting fraudulent and erroneous payments from the public purse. The exercise is run every two years.
The National Fraud Initiative enabled participating organisations in England to identify and prevent an estimated £510 million of fraud, overpayments and error between April 2022 and March 2024. This brings cumulative outcomes since the NFI began in 1996 to just under £3 billion.The types of frauds and errors previously identified by the NFI in the NHS include:
- NHS employees with no right to work or reside in the UK
- Employees working elsewhere whilst on sick leave
- NHS workers fraudulently claiming housing and council tax benefits
- Overpayment of invoices resulting from the payment of duplicate invoices and credit notes
- Occupational pension payments paid to deceased pensioners several years after their death
The Cabinet Office’s data matching involves comparing computer records held by one body against other computer records held by the same or another body to see how far they match. This is usually personal information. Computerised data matching allows potentially fraudulent claims and payments to be identified. Where a match is found it may indicate that there is an inconsistency which requires further investigation. No assumption can be made as to whether there is fraud, error or other explanation until an investigation is carried out.
Participation in the data matching exercise assists in the prevention and detection of fraud and involves the provision of particular sets of data to the Cabinet Office for matching for each exercise, and these are set out in the Cabinet Office’s guidance, which can be found here
The use of data by the Cabinet Office in a data matching exercise is carried out with statutory authority under Part 6 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014. It does not require the consent of the individuals concerned under the General Data Protection Regulations 2018.
Data matching by the Cabinet Office is subject to a Code of Practice. This may be found here
Details of the Cabinet Office’s data deletion schedule can be found here
For further information on the Cabinet Office’s legal powers and the reasons why it matches particular information see this page
Further details will also be published on the local intranet and in briefings/newsletters. The key contact for the exercise is Nikki Cooper and if you have any queries regarding the exercise she can be contacted by Email: nikki.cooper1@nhs.net by Teams or Mobile: 07872 988939
Our data protection officer
Our Data Protection Officer is Helen Holt.