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Medication safety: GDPR information
Summary
Why and how we process your data in the Medication safety system, and your rights.
| Controller | NHS Digital |
| How we use the information (processing activities) | Data is collected to measure the preventable harm caused by hazardous prescribing. It is also used to help measure the impact of improvements designed to reduce this harm. |
| Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? | Yes |
| Who are recipients of this data? | |
| Is data transferred outside the UK? | No |
| How long the data is kept | 5 years minimum |
| Our lawful basis for holding this data | Legal obligation |
| Your rights |
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| How can you withdraw your consent? |
Consent not the basis for processing |
| Is the data subject to decisions made solely by computers? (automated decision making) | No |
| Where does this data come from? | NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) (prescribing records) and Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) dataset |
| The legal basis for collecting this data | Legal obligation (Direction) and management of health and social care systems |
