Alcohol Dependence Programme Patient Level Data Collection

To assess the effectiveness of alcohol treatment services against ethnic, socioeconomic and groups with other protected characteristics. To drive improvements in service delivery including, access, impact and reducing inequalities.

Pseudonymised data will be shared by NHS Digital’s Arden and GEM Data Services for Commissioners Regional Office (DSCRO) to NHS England under an existing Data Sharing Agreement. 

• Be informed
  
• Get access to it
  
• Rectify or change it
  
• Erase or remove it
  
• Restrict or stop processing it
  
• Move, copy or transfer it
  
• Object to it being processed or used
  
• Know if a decision was made by a computer rather than a person
  

Consent is not the basis for processing.

Article 6(1)(c) the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Controller is subject (the Direction).
Article 9 2 (h) Processing is necessary for the provision of health care or treatment, and for the management of health care systems or services; and/or
Article 9(2)(i) – public interest in the area of public health, supplemented by DPA 2018, Schedule 1 Part 1, paragraph 3 - public health; and/or
Article 9(2)(j) processing is necessary for Research and statistics supplemented by DPA 2018 paragraph 4: Schedule 1.

Alcohol Dependence Treatment Patient Level Data Collection Directions 2021, which are given in exercise by NHS England of the powers conferred by sections 254(1), (3) and (6) and section 304(9), (10) and (12) of the 2012 Act

In accordance with section 260(1) of the 2012 Act, NHS Digital has a legal duty to publish all information it collects by complying with a Direction unless it falls within section 260(2) of the 2012 Act. Pursuant to NHS Digital’s duty to publish, and in accordance with section 260(4)(a) of the 2012 Act, NHS Digital must publish the information at an aggregate level as part of a dashboard tool as set out in the Requirements Specification.

Pursuant to section 262(3) of the 2012 Act, NHS Digital is directed to exercise its powers under section 261(4) of the 2012 to disseminate the information collected pursuant to these Directions to the organisations that provided the information where it would be lawful for NHS Digital to do so.