Privacy notice
NHS England has been directed by the government to establish and operate the OpenSAFELY COVID-19 Service and the OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service. These services provide a secure environment that supports research, clinical audit, service evaluation and health surveillance for COVID-19 and other purposes.
Each GP practice remains the controller of its own GP patient data but is required to let approved users run queries on pseudonymised patient data. This means identifiers are removed and replaced with a pseudonym.
Only approved users are allowed to run these queries, and they will not be able to access information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals.
Patients who do not wish for their data to be used as part of this process can register type 1 opt out with their GP.
Find additional information about OpenSAFELY.
GP GDPR Privacy Notice v2.8 May 2023
COVID19 Privacy Notice v2.0 extended to 31 October 2022
Our Data Protection Officer is Paul Couldrey of PCIG Consulting Limited. Any queries regarding Data Protection issues should be addressed to him at: – Email: [email protected] Postal: PCIG Consulting Limited 7 Westacre Drive Quarry Bank Dudley West Midlands DY5 2EE
