NHS: Databases
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients are able to exercise the National Data Opt-Out from inclusion in the Federated Data Platform.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The National Data Opt-Out does not currently apply to the NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP). This is not because of a direction but because there are currently no products within the NHS FDP which are required to apply the National Data Opt-Out. If the purpose of processing means that the National Data Opt-Out should apply, then the data controller must apply the opt-out. This is covered in the NHS FDP Information Governance Framework, which can be found at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/federated-data-platform-information-governance-framework/
Further information on where the National Data Opt-Out does not apply is available at the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/where-your-choice-does-not-apply/
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