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Privacy Notice: General Practice Extraction Service (GPES)
Data Controller
The Barn Surgery
Data Protection Officer
Dr Ian Pidgeon, Partner
General Practice Extraction Service (GPES)
Purpose: GP practices are required by law to provide data extraction of their patients personal confidential information for various purposes by NHS Digital. The objective of this data collection is on an ongoing basis to identify patients registered at General Practices who fit within a certain criteria, in order to monitor and either provide direct care, or prevent serious harm to those patients. Below is a list of the purposes for the data extraction, by using the link you can find out the detail behind each data extraction and how your information will be used to inform this essential work. You can find the approval certificate and details including individual legal basis for all data extractions on the NHS Digital website
Legal Basis: All GP Practices in England are legally required to share data with NHS Digital for this purpose under section 259(1)(a) and (5) of the 2012 Act
Any objections to these data collections should be made directly to NHS Digital
Processor: NHS Digital or NHS X