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Online and Video Consultation undertaken in General Practice
Summary
Why and how we process your data in the Online and Video Consultation undertaken in General Practice and your rights.
Controller | NHS England (in relation to processing the personal data) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (in relation to determining the purpose for processing the data through the issuing of a Direction to NHS England). |
How we use the information (processing activities) | The OC/VC data collection will provide vital information both to practices and local commissioners on how OC/VC functionalities are being used by patients and general practices. It will enable targeting of implementation support and will help to support understanding of demand and activity in general practice. The data will provide the following benefits to general practices, commissioners, and suppliers:
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Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? | Yes |
Who are recipients of this data? |
None |
Is data transferred outside the UK? | This data is not transferred out of the UK |
How long the data is kept | 20 years in line with the Corporate Document and Records Management Policy (NHS Digital) |
Our lawful basis for holding this data | Legal obligation |
Your rights |
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How can you withdraw your consent? |
Consent is not the basis for the processing |
Is the data subject to decisions made solely by computers? (automated decision making) | No |
Where does this data come from? | General practices |
The legal basis for collecting this data | NHS England's lawful basis for processing (collecting and analysing) personal data is: UK GDPR Article 6(1)(c) - processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject. NHS England has the legal permission to collect and analyse the data under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. NHS England's lawful basis for processing (collecting and analysing) special categories of personal data is: UK GDPR Article 9(2)(g) - reasons of substantial public interests, supplemented by: Data Protection Act 2018, Schedule 1, Part 2, Paragraph 6 - 'statutory etc and government purposes' UK GDPR Article 9(2)(h) - management of health or social care systems and services, supplemented by: Data Protection Act 2018, Schedule 1, Part 1, Paragraph 2(2)(f) – ‘the management of health care systems or services or social care systems or services’. |
Where we use this data
Online and video consultation undertaken in general practice data collection
The data collection will provide vital information both to general practices and local commissioners on implementation support, resource and will provide an indication of the amount of activity taking place via these channels to demonstrate demand in general practice.