Your privacy

For a good treatment it is necessary that I, as your treating therapist, keep a file. This is also a legal obligation imposed by the WGBO (Dutch Medical Treatment Agreement Act). Your file contains notes about your state of health and information about the examinations and treatments carried out.

The file also includes information that is necessary for your treatment and that I, after your explicit consent, have requested from another care provider, for example from your general practitioner.

We do our best to safeguard your privacy. This means, among other things, that we:

  1. handle your personal and medical data with care
  2. ensure that unauthorised persons do not have access to your data

As your treating therapist, I am the only one with access to the data in your file. I have a legal duty of confidentiality (professional secrecy).

The data from your file may also be used for the following purposes:

  1. To inform other care providers, for example when the therapy has been completed, or in the case of a referral to another practitioner. This only happens with your explicit consent.
  2. For use during cover, in my absence.
  3. For use during peer review (the data used are anonymised).
  4. A small part of the data from your file is used for the financial administration, so that I or my administrator can draw up an invoice.

If I wish to use your data for another reason, I will first inform you and explicitly ask for your consent.

The data in the client file is kept for 20 years, as required by the law on the treatment agreement.

Privacy on the invoice

The invoice you receive contains the data requested by the health insurer, so that you can submit this invoice to your health insurer.