Laws and rights

There are also regulations on how you can make complaints or provide feedback about healthcare and dental care services.

Processing of personal data

Information about you is recorded every time you contact the healthcare service. There are strict rules on how healthcare providers may record and use personal data. We therefore have a great responsibility to ensure that your personal data is handled correctly to maintain good, safe services while also protecting your privacy. 

There are a number of situations in which we process personal data. The most common are:

• Medical recordkeeping within the healthcare service.
• Statistics within the healthcare service.
• Service monitoring and quality assurance in healthcare.
• Research in healthcare.
• Human resources matters such as pay, sick leave and job applications.

Please contact us if you have any questions about your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or how we process your personal data, or if you would like to contact our Data Protection Officers.

Postal address: Data Protection Officer, Stockholm County Health Care Area, Box 43436, 104 31 Stockholm, Tel: 08 123 400 00 (switchboard). 
Email: gdpr.slso@regionstockholm.se.
Remember never to send anything containing patient data by email.

Laws and regulations governing our activities

• The Patient Data Act
• The Health and Medical Services Act
• The Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional
• Impairments (LSS)
• Patient fees and the high-cost protection scheme
• The Patient Act
• The Patient Safety Act
• The Compulsory Psychiatric Care Act
• The Forensic Psychiatric Care Act
• Confidentiality and professional secrecy
• Samples stored in biobanks
• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child