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Marden Medical Centre uses data insightfully for Research, auditing and healthcare planning (population health management).

Data Controller

Marden Medical Centre Church Green Marden Tonbridge TN12 9HP

Purpose of the processing

If data from many patients are linked up or pooled, Researchers and Doctors can look for patterns in the data, helping them to develop new ways of predicting illness, and identify ways to improve clinical care. This information can be used to help:

Understand more about disease risk and causes
Improve diagnosis
Develop new treatments and prevent diseases
Plan NHS and GP Services
Improve patient safety
Evaluate Government and NHS Policy

Information we collect and use

Pseudonymised data: information about individuals but with identifying details (such as name or NHS number) replaced with a unique code
Anonymised data: information about individuals but with identifying details removed
Aggregated data: anonymised information grouped together so that it does not identify individuals

In certain circumstances, where we have a lawful basis it may be necessary to use:

Demographics: name, address, date of birth, postcode, and NHS number
Medical history

Lawful basis for processing

These purposes are supported under the following sections of the UK General Data Protection Regulations:

Article 6(1)(e) ‘…necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority…’; and

Article 9(2)(h) ‘necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services...”

Schedule 1, Part 1(2) Health and Social Care Purposes, Data Protection Act 2018 The legal obligation relies on the Health and Social Care Act 2012 s251(b) (as amended by the Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015 which created a statutory ‘duty to share’).

We will also recognise your rights established under UK case law collectively known as the “Common Law Duty of Confidentiality” to keep information about you confidential.

Strategic Health and Care Board (SHcAB)

Your information will be passed, with all identifiers removed, to a collaborative programme called the Kent & Medway Shared Health and Care Analytics Board. It will be used for population health management purposes beyond your individual care, including, for example, planning services, managing finances, early treatment of illnesses (known as risk stratification), coordinating and improving patient and service user’s movement through the health and care system, research, and public health enhancement.

Kent and Medway Care Record (KMCR)

Marden Medical Centre are one of the partner organisations to the Kent and Medway Care Record (KMCR). The KMCR is an electronic care record which links your health and social care information held in different provider systems, to one platform. This allows health and social care professionals who have signed up to the KMCR to access the most up to date information to ensure you receive the best possible care and support by those supporting you. In order to enable this sharing of information, organisations who use the KMCR have agreements in place that allow the sharing of personal and special category data

Further information about the Kent and Medway Care Record and the ways in which your data is used for this system

General Practice Extract Service (GPES)

NHS Digital, collects data from Practices to support vital health and care planning and research. This information is used insightfully to better understand what causes ill health and, importantly, what we can do to prevent or treat it and provide better care.

Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI)

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has issued Notices under Regulation 3(4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI) which required organisations to share confidential patient information with organisations entitled to process this under COPI for COVID-19 purposes (COPI Notices).

Further guidance on processing personal data, when the COPI Notice expires

Population Health Management

Your information is passed, with all identifiers removed to NHS Kent and Medway for public health management. This enables the Practice to identify the appropriate level of care and services for distinct groups of patients. It is the process of assigning a risk status to patients, then using this information to direct care and improve overall health outcomes.

National Data Opt-Out

The National Data opt-out is a service that enables patients to opt-out of their confidential information being used for research and planning.

The National Data opt-out can be applied here

It is worth noting that in a small number of exceptional circumstances, where senior health care professionals can decide to share information based on public interest, and in these cases the National Data Opt-out does not apply.

The Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) considers applications for the use of patient data without consent under the following regulations of Control of Patient Information Regulations 2002 , Section 251 of the NHS Act 2006:

Regulation 2 – for diagnosis and treatment of cancer
Regulation 5 – for general medical and research purpose

Specific exemptions to the national data opt-out policy have been made for disclosure of data for:

Public Health England National Disease Registers
Assuring Transformation
National patient experience surveys

There are also specific policy considerations for NHS Digital, as the national safe haven of health and care data with specific powers under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. National data opt-outs do not apply where NHS Digital indicate data should be provided to them under s259 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Rights to object

The National Data opt-out is a service that enables patients to opt-out of their confidential information being used for research and plannin