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Organisation standards codes and reference (OSCAR): GDPR information

Summary

Why and how we process your data within OSCAR, and your rights.

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

Provision of reference data to support NHS and social care IT systems.
Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? No
Who are recipients of this data?

Publicly available
Is data transferred outside the UK? No
How long the data is kept Live Data, historical data not retained
Our lawful basis for holding this data Public task
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
  • Tick Object to it being processed or used
  • Tick 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 - Right to object via the designated mailbox
Is the data subject to decisions made solely by computers? (automated decision making) No
The legal basis for collecting this data

Public task and Health and Social Care Act (2012) – Schedule 18, part 10 (1)

Where we use this data