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Written question asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour) on Monday, 3 July 2023, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 July 2023. It was answered by Lord Markham (Conservative) on Wednesday, 19 July 2023 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


General Practitioners: Data Processing

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend that the data set, General Practice Extraction Service data for pandemic planning and research will contribute to the NHS England service ‘Cohorting as a Service’.

Answer

General Practice Extraction Service data for pandemic planning and research has been used by Cohorting as a Service to identify patients in clinically at-risk groups to receive COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations. There are no plans to use this data within Cohorting as a Service for other purposes.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL8985
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Data processing Finance Disease control General practitioners Research
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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