General practice transparency notice for GPES data for pandemic planning and research (COVID-19)
Information for patients explaining how your data is being processed to support vital coronavirus (COVID-19) planning and research.
This practice is supporting vital coronavirus (COVID-19) planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital. This transparency notice supplements our main practice privacy notice.
The health and social care system is facing significant pressures due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Health and care information is essential to deliver care to individuals, to support health, social care and other public services and to protect public health. Information will also be vital in researching, monitoring, tracking and managing the coronavirus outbreak. In the current emergency it has become even more important to share health and care information across relevant organisations. This practice is supporting vital coronavirus planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital, the national safe haven for health and social care data in England.
To find out more about how the NHS are collecting and centralising data from GP practices to share for planning and research into COVID-19 click the link below