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NHS Pathways intelligent data tool: GDPR information

Summary

Why and how we process your data in the NHS Pathways intelligent data tool, and your rights.

Controller NHS Digital
How we use the information (processing activities)

NHS Pathways Intelligent Data Tool is a dashboard platform that indexes the real-time 111/999 telephony data that comes into NHS Digital. This is an externally accessed web application that NHS 111 or 999 providers and commissioners can access for business intelligence. The data is used for service development purposes.
Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? Yes
Who are recipients of this data?

Anonymous information shared with NHS England, NHS Improvement, UK Health Security Agency and service providers
Is data transferred outside the UK? No
How long the data is kept 12 months 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? 111 and 999 service providers
The legal basis for collecting this data

Legal obligation (Direction) and management of health and social care systems

Where we use this data

internal

NHS Pathways

Find out about NHS Pathways, a clinical tool used for assessing, triaging and directing the public to urgent and emergency care services. Learn more about the about the benefits of the service, how it works and how to use it.