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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
  • Tick Be informed
  • Tick Get access to it
  • Tick Rectify or change it
  • Cross Erase or remove it
  • Tick Restrict or stop processing it
  • Cross Move, copy or transfer it
  • Cross Object to it being processed or used
  • Cross Know if a decision was made by a computer rather than a person
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