Written question asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour) on Monday, 20 February 2023, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 6 March 2023. It was answered by Lord Markham (Conservative) on Monday, 6 March 2023 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

NHS Digital: Data Protection

Question: To ask His Majesty's Government how many people’s GP records have been made accessible to contractors and sub-contractors working on NHS England’s Cohorting as a Service system in 2023; and what data fields have been shared.

Answer

The clinical data used in the Cohorting as a Service system covers between 15 and 20 million people in the flu and COVID-19 cohorts. The system is built and maintained by NHS England employees and one main contractor, with less than fifteen people in the team having access to the relevant clinical cohorting data. This data is only accessed by exception, for example to investigate or resolve problems. The remainder of the team use test data for building the service and do not have access to the clinical data.

The system accesses the following data fields:

- NHS Number;

- surname and forename;

- date of birth/age;

- address and postcode;

- ethnicity;

- sex;

- the associated SNOMED5 CT codes and dates for medical conditions and drug treatment(s) relevant to the cohort criteria.

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Type: Written question
Reference: HL5675
Session: 2022-23
Related items: NHS Digital: Data Protection
Monday, 13 March 2023
Written questions
House of Lords; NHS Digital: Data Protection
Monday, 20 March 2023
Written questions
House of Lords
Subjects: Data protection Databases Medical records NHS Digital
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

NHS Digital: Data Protection

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