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Organisation standards codes and reference (OSCAR): GDPR information
Summary
Why and how we process your data within OSCAR, and your rights.
Controller | NHS Digital |
How we use the information (processing activities) | Provision of reference data to support NHS and social care IT systems. |
Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? | No |
Who are recipients of this data? |
Publicly available |
Is data transferred outside the UK? | No |
How long the data is kept | Live Data, historical data not retained |
Our lawful basis for holding this data | Public task |
Your rights |
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How can you withdraw your consent? |
Consent not the basis for processing - Right to object via the designated mailbox |
Is the data subject to decisions made solely by computers? (automated decision making) | No |
The legal basis for collecting this data | Public task and Health and Social Care Act (2012) – Schedule 18, part 10 (1) |
Where we use this data
Organisation Data Service (ODS)
A national service for managing information about organisations across health and social care.