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You have a choice about organ or tissue donation after your death. To find out more about why it is important that you take this time to make your donation decision and record it, go to www.organdonationscotland.org

The information you have provided will be used by NHS Scotland to carry out its various functions and services including scheduling appointments, ordering tests, hospital referrals and sending correspondence.

Your information, including your name, gender, date of birth and address, will be passed to NHS National Services Scotland where it will be held on the Community Health Index (CHI). This information is used to register you with the GP Practice, transfer your medical records between GP practices in the UK, make payments to GP Practices for medical services provided, and to process and issue medical exemption certificates and entitlement cards.

The information you have provided will be used by NHS Scotland to carry out its various functions and services including scheduling appointments, ordering tests, hospital referrals and sending correspondence.

NHS Scotland is made up of various organisations such as NHS Health Boards, GP practices, the Scottish Ambulance Service or NHS National Services Scotland (the common name of the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service). These organisations are individually responsible for your personal health information. In terms of data protection and privacy laws, they are known as 'data controllers'.

Find out more about NHS Scotland in the link provided above.

I declare that the information I have given on this form is correct and complete. I understand that, if it is not, appropriate action may be taken. To enable NHS National Services Scotland to confirm my eligibility to lawfully register with a GP and for the purposes of prevention, detection, and investigation of crime, the minimum necessary information from this form could be disclosed to relevant authorities.

I understand that more comprehensive information about how NHS Scotland handles my data is available from NHS Inform.

This information can be provided in other languages and formats on request. The NHS Inform helpline provides an interpreting service.