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Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness (PHSMI): GDPR information
Summary
Why and how we process your data for the Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness (PHSMI) and your rights.
| Controller | NHS Digital (in relation to processing the personal data) and NHS England (in relation to determining the purpose for processing the data through the issuing of a direction to NHS Digital). |
| How we use the information (processing activities) | The Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness (PHSMI) data collection supports the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan to reducing the levels of premature mortality for people living with severe mental illness (SMI) who die 15-20 years earlier than the rest of the population, largely due to preventable or treatable physical health problems. The information is taken from the data held by General Practice's via the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES). This will enable monitoring of the delivery and evaluation of the national programme, the full comprehensive health checks, uptake of the follow-up interventions and access to national cancer screening programmes. This information will aid understanding as to whether the delivery of follow-up interventions affects individual health check indicators over time. The data will support professionally led quality improvements, allowing local systems to clearly identify gaps, inequalities and opportunities for improvement in the provision of health care and for supporting research via NHS Digital Data Access Request Service (DARS). |
| Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? | Yes |
| Who are recipients of this data? |
Data is available via the Data Access Request Service (DARS) recipients are recorded in the Register of Approved Data Releases for these disseminations. |
| Is data transferred outside the UK? | Not for the purposes of processing it by NHS Digital. It may be transferred outside of the UK if this approved by NHS Digital through the DARS process for any particular dissemination. |
| How long the data is kept | 20 years minimum from the date of the extract from the General practice system. |
| 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 processing. Option available via National Data Opt out to stop your confidential patient information being used for research and planning. |
| Is the data subject to decisions made solely by computers? (automated decision making) | No |
| Where does this data come from? | General Practice (GP) medical records via General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) |
| The legal basis for collecting this data | GDPR: |
