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UK GDPR and AI in private psychological practice

A working guide for HCPC-registered clinicians: the document I wish had existed when I first started thinking carefully about AI in my own practice.

02What is inside

Ten sections of working text plus six appendices of templates.

About forty pages in PDF, with the appendices carrying the working templates (a DPIA, a vendor sub-processor questionnaire, sample privacy notice language, and a practice AI policy) that are usually the parts clinicians ask me about first.

  1. 01

    Lawful basis, worked through

    Why most of us land on Article 6(1)(f) legitimate interests plus Article 9(2)(h) health and social care, with two worked examples: a specialist clinical tool, and a general-purpose AI used to draft letters.

  2. 02

    Sub-processors and the data chain

    How to sketch the chain behind any AI tool you use, with the questions to put to every vendor in writing before they touch a client's data, and the answers that should give you pause when they arrive.

  3. 03

    A DPIA template you can actually fill in

    Structured to the ICO's recommended approach, written as a starting point rather than a finished document, so that your own clinical judgement still has to be applied for it to fit your practice.

  4. 04

    Sample privacy notice language

    Adaptable wording covering AI use, sub-processors, residency, retention, training opt-out, and your clients' rights, ready to drop into your existing notice and edit to fit your circumstances.

  5. 05

    A vendor questionnaire and an evaluation framework

    A one-page sub-processor questionnaire to send vendors before contract, plus a one-page framework for evaluating any AI tool before you deploy it in your practice.

  6. 06

    An AI policy template for your own practice

    A one-page policy that pulls the rest of the work together, recording which tools you've approved, what you've ruled out, how you review output, and how clients are told, written so an insurer or a regulator could pick it up and understand how AI is governed in your practice.

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