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GDPR & Confidentiality for Aesthetic Practitioners

UK GDPR and confidentiality applied to a clinic: what you hold, why you hold it, and how you protect it.

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AssessedFinal assessment, 80% to pass
CertificateIssued when you pass

About this course

Aesthetic clinics hold special category health data, photographs and payment details. This course explains UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 in plain terms for practitioners: lawful bases, special category conditions, privacy information, retention, security, breaches and individual rights.

It also covers professional confidentiality, which goes beyond data law, including conversations, messaging apps, social media and what can and cannot be shared.

Who it is for: Practitioners and anyone handling client information.

What you will be able to do

  • Identify the personal and special category data a clinic processes.
  • Choose and record a lawful basis and special category condition.
  • Write or check a privacy notice and manage consent for marketing.
  • Recognise a data breach and respond within the required timeframes.
  • Handle subject access requests and keep confidentiality in everyday practice.

Course content

  1. 1.Foundations

    • UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act in plain terms
    • The data a clinic holds and why · knowledge check
  2. 2.Everyday practice

    • Privacy information, consent and marketing
    • Security, devices and messaging apps · knowledge check
  3. 3.Rights, requests and breaches

    • Individual rights and subject access requests
    • Breaches: recognition, response and reporting · knowledge check
  4. 4.Final assessment

    Pass mark 80%. Academy certificate on passing with every lesson complete.

The Beauty Aesthetics Academy is an Approved Provider with The CPD Group (#779331). Provider status is separate from the accreditation of an individual course; this course: cpd accreditation planned.

Beyond the treatment room

Training teaches you how to become the practitioner. The Clinic Standard is there for what comes next.

From launching your first clinic to pricing, systems, policies, profitability, client journey and growth, The Clinic Standard focuses on the business behind the treatment room.

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GDPR & Confidentiality for Aesthetic Practitioners