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Post-COVID Assessment Clinic Patient List Data Set

Summary

Why and how we process your data in the Post-COVID Assessment Clinic Patient List Data Set and your rights.

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

To monitor and evaluate post-COVID assessment services and understand outcomes of patients with long COVID who require specialist care. To drive improvements in service delivery including access, impact and reducing inequalities. The data will also be used to produce monthly anonymous statistical publications and dashboards.
Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? Yes
Who are recipients of this data?

Data from this collection may be shared with organisations for planning, commissioning and research purposes where there is a benefit to health and social care. Organisations will need to apply and gain approval through our Data Access Request Service.
Is data transferred outside the UK? No
How long the data is kept 20 years minimum, with regular reviews in accordance with the NHS Records Management Code of Practice and NHS England Corporate Records Retention and Disposal Schedule.
Our lawful basis for holding this data Legal obligation
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
  • Cross Object to it being processed or used
  • Cross Know if a decision was made by a computer rather than a person
How can you withdraw your consent?

Consent is not the basis for processing.
Is the data subject to decisions made solely by computers? (automated decision making) No
Where does this data come from? Providers of NHS funded Post-COVID assessment services in England, including independent care providers who provide NHS commissioned/funded Post-COVID assessment services.
The legal basis for collecting this data

UK GDPR Article 6(1)(c) - legal obligation (the COVID-19 Public Health Directions 2020, under s.254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012).

Article 9(2)(h) - management of health care systems or services, supplemented by DPA 2018, Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 2 – Health or social care purposes,

and

Article 9(2)(i) – public health, supplemented by DPA 2018 Schedule 1 Part 1, paragraph 3 - public health;

and

Article 9(2)(j) - research and statistics supplemented by DPA 2018 Schedule 1 Part 1, paragraph 4 - Research