This practice is supporting vital coronavirus (COVID-19) planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital.
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General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR)
Update 09.06.2021 – The deadline has currently been delayed until 1st September 2021
NHS Digital Website link: General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) – NHS Digital
Click here to view a chart showing the effect on data of the 2 types of opt out
The data held in the GP medical records of patients is used every day to support health and care planning and research in England, helping to find better treatments and improve patient outcomes for everyone. NHS Digital has developed a new way to collect this data, called the General Practice Data for Planning and Research data collection.
From 1st July, GP practices nationwide will be required to supply patients’ personal and confidential medical information, on a regular and continuous basis, to NHS Digital. The information will consist of your full (historic) GP record, as well as new information added to it on an ongoing basis.
Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, GP practices have no choice but to allow NHS Digital to extract this information – it is a legal obligation.
NHS Digital will become the data controller for that information, will administer the data, and intends to use it for planning health services, commissioning, population health management and for research. This is known as secondary uses of your medical records.
Medical staff treating you in GP surgeries, hospitals, A&E and out-of-hours centres will not use, or be able to use, this database. They have access to all relevant medical information about you in other ways.
Although GP practices cannot object to this information leaving the practice, individual patients and their families can instruct their practice to prohibit the transfer of their personal data, i.e. you have the right to opt-out.
Opting out of GPDPR involves registering an objection at the surgery to all secondary uses of your personal identifiable data, where your explicit consent is not being sought beforehand using a Type 1 data opt out form.
Download the Type 1 Data Opt Out Form
A Type 1 opt-out should then prohibit extraction and uploading for all of the following secondary uses:
- General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) extraction
- Risk stratification schemes
- National clinical audits (such as the National Diabetes Audit)
- Extraction of de-identified information about you concerning any eMed3 Statement of Fitness to Work reports (i.e. sick notes), uploaded to NHS Digital, and subsequently passed by NHS Digital to the Department of Work and Pensions
- All extractions and uploading of identifiable information about you to NHS Digital, for any secondary purpose (so-called GPES extractions)
A Type 1 opt-out:
- Will have no effect on anonymised or aggregate (numbers) information being shared within the NHS to help medical research
- In no way prevents you from agreeing – with your explicit consent – to partake in high-quality medical research at your GP surgery/local hospital/other health organisation, where you have given your explicit consent to be involved (i.e. you have been asked first)
- It will in no way prevent you from
- Giving blood
- Joining the NHS Organ Donor Register
- Signing up to the Anthony Nolan register to donate your blood stem cells or bone marrow
- Donating your DNA for medical research
- Contributing to UK Biobank
- Joining the 100K Genomes project
- Taking part in clinical drug trials
- Donating your body to medical science after your death
- Giving money (in a tax-efficient way) to a medical charity
- Being contacted by your GP to invite you to take part in any research
- It will have no effect on your GP surgery and the way that it is paid by the NHS or on the services that it provides (e.g. via CQRS).
- It will have no effect on the way that any hospital is paid by the NHS for treating you (e.g. Payment by Results).
- It will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on any of the following:
- The Electronic Prescription Service
- Choose & Book/E-Referrals
- The Summary Care Record
- EMIS Web data streaming
- GP2GP transfers
- The NHS Cervical Screening programme
- The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening programme
- The NHS Breast Screening programme
- The NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening programme
- NHS Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
- Information being provided to the National Disease/Cancer Registries (run by Public Health England).
- Uploading of aggregated information via The Quality and Outcomes Framework
- Uploading of aggregated information via QSurveillance
- It will in no way affect any medical care you need for COVID-19
- It will in no way affect your eligibility for, or your ability to receive, your COVID-19 vaccinations
- It will in no way affect your ability to hold, or show, a “COVID-19 vaccination passport”
- It will in no way affect your ability to contribute to research about COVID-19, if you are asked for your explicit permission first
You can express a National Data Opt Out (NDOO) as well and with both the Type 1 and National Data opt-outs in force:
- No record-level information whatsoever will be uploaded from your GP record to NHS Digital
- NHS Digital will have no information from your GP record to release, in any format, to any organisation, for any purpose
- NHS Digital will only continue to hold information extracted from your hospital records, as well as aggregate information (i.e. numbers) from your GP practice
- NHS Digital will not be able to release any information that clearly identifies you from the information extracted from your hospital record
National data opt-outs are not recorded at the GP practice and instead you can change your national data opt-out using the online service (link below) or by calling the contact centre. Young adults from the age of 13 can set and change their own national data opt-out.
NHS Digital website link: Make your choice about sharing data from your health records – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Email: enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk
Postal address:
National Data Opt Out Contact Centre
NHS Digital
HM Government
7 and 8 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
You can also make or change a choice for yourself by phoning the NHS Digital Contact Centre.
The phone number is 0300 303 5678 – Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (excluding bank holidays)
Lloyd George Digitisation – DPIA
Lancashire and South Cumbria has been chosen by NHS England to be a national pilot for the digitisation of Medical Records. Scanning these paper based records and making them digital will enable better utilisation of space, creating more clinical space, staff areas, multi team space and video hubs, removing the need for some practices to build extensions. In addition it will also make your record more easily and speedily accessible to clinical staff within your practice.
Your complete GP medical record will be digital and stored in a secure cloud based clinical system (only accessible by your GP practice) with the paper based records being securely destroyed following BS EN 15713:2009 Secure destruction of confidential material. Your GP will still be able to access your records easily within this system. The scanning and destruction of the paper records will follow strict data protection guidelines adhered to by the NHS. As with paper based records, digital records are stored for the durations specified in the Records Management Codes of Practice for Health and Social Care. For GP patient records, this states that they may be destroyed 10 years after the patient’s death if they are no longer needed.
If you wish to discuss the scheme, please inform the Practice direct either by letter or via e-mail info.peelhouse@nhs.net