Breastfeeding Peer Support

For you to get breastfeeding support from Healthworks, Newcastle Hospitals (NUTH) will share the following information with Newcastle City Council and Healthworks:

• Your name
• Yours and your baby’s date of birth
• Your address and postcode
• Your GP
• Your telephone number
• Your ethnicity
• How you are feeding your baby.  For example, are you exclusively breastfeeding, giving a combination of breastmilk and formula, or are you expressing and feeding your baby expressed breastmilk.
• If you and your baby are together
• Gestation – or how long your pregnancy was
• If you or your baby is readmitted to hospital
• Your baby’s birth weight
• How your baby was delivered
• Your main language and if you need an interpreter

Your data is secure and only a small number of staff can access it.  These staff are employed by:

• Newcastle City Council
• NUTH
• Healthworks

All staff follow strict privacy rules.

Staff from Healthworks will use your data to contact you within 48 hours, after you leave hospital, to offer breastfeeding support.  This will be a text message or telephone call.

Before anyone can access your data, they must agree to privacy rules and cannot share your data with anyone else.

All personal data collected, used and stored by Healthworks will be in accordance with the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. Your information will only be shared by NUTH if you consent. Any information shared will be stored safely in a secure system owned by NCC. Only Healthworks will be able to see it, and only so they can give you the support you have agreed to.

• I agree that important information about me and my baby can be shared safely after we leave hospital, so Healthworks can contact me to offer breastfeeding support.
• I understand that help from Healthworks is a support service. It does not change my NHS care, or my hospital health records at NUTH.
• We agree to store your personal information safely and only used your information to give you the support you agree to.
• I know that I can change my mind, stop using this service at any time and ask for my consent to be withdrawn. I can do this by telling Healthworks by emailing Data.protection@hwn.org.uk or calling 07826 531 575.