General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018

We only collect and use your information for the lawful purposes of administering the business of NHS ELR CCG.

We process personal information to enable us to support the provision of healthcare services to patients, maintain our own accounts and records, promote our services, and to support and manage our employees. In order to do so effectively we are often required to process personal data i.e. that which identifies a living individual.

We also process special category data. This is personal data which the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) says is more sensitive, and so needs more protection:

• racial and ethnic origin
• offences (including alleged offences), criminal proceedings, outcomes and sentences
• trade union membership
• religious or similar beliefs
• employment tribunal applications, complaints, accidents, and incident details

This information will generally relate to our staff, covered by the Privacy Notice for Staff.

In terms of patient information, the special category data we process includes:

• physical or mental health details
• racial and ethnic origin
• sexual orientation

Your personal information may be shared with Leicester City CCG and West Leicestershire CCG. This is part of as part of the management of change process where the three Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland CCGs have moved to one Accountable Officer and a single Executive Team. This requires closer joint working across the three CCGs.

Accordingly, the following information may be shared where the corporate functions are being reviewed and wherever possible information, reporting, staffing, systems and processes will be aligned.

Where information is shared the CCG to which your matter relates to will remain as the Data Controller and all queries regarding the use of your data should be made to that CCG. Where data is processed by another of the CCGs on behalf of the data controller, they will be acting as a Data Processor.

Whenever you use a health or care service, such as attending Accident & Emergency or using Community Care services, important information about you is collected to help ensure you get the best possible care and treatment.

The information collected about you when you use these services can also be provided to other approved organisations, where there is a legal basis, to help with planning services, improving care provided, research into developing new treatments and preventing illness.  

All of these help to provide better health and care for you, your family and future generations. Confidential personal information about your health and care is only used in this way where allowed by law and would never be used for insurance or marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

You have a choice about whether you want your confidential patient information to be used in this way.

To find out more about the wider use of confidential personal information and to register your choice to ‘opt out’ if you do not want your data to be used in this way, visit www.nhs.uk/my-data-choice. If you do choose to ‘opt out,’ you can still consent to your data being used for specific purposes.

If you are happy with this use of information, you do not need to do anything. However, you can change your choice at any time.

NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG is required to protect the public funds it administers. It may share information provided to it with other bodies responsible for auditing, or administering public funds, or where undertaking a public function, in order to prevent and detect fraud.

The Cabinet Office is responsible for carrying out data matching exercises.

Data matching involves comparing computer records held by one body against other computer records held by the same or another body to see how far they match. This is usually personal information. Computerised data matching allows potentially fraudulent claims and payments to be identified. Where a match is found it may indicate that there is an inconsistency which requires further investigation. No assumption can be made as to whether there is fraud, error or other explanation until an investigation is carried out.

We participate in the Cabinet Office’s National Fraud Initiative: a data matching exercise to assist in the prevention and detection of fraud. We are required to provide particular sets of data to the Minister for the Cabinet Office for matching for each exercise.

The use of data by the Cabinet Office in a data matching exercise is carried out with statutory authority under Part 6 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.Data matching by the Cabinet Office is subject to a Code of Practice. Should you wish to know more information on this Fair Processing Notice please see the more detailed full text. View further information on the Cabinet Office’s legal powers and the reasons why it matches particular information. For further information on data matching at this authority contact Stuart Francis at stuart.francis@nhs.net.

For the GDPR purposes NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) – ‘…exercise of official authority…’, or where there is a legal obligation to share information Article 6(1)(c) – processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.

NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG does not use automated individual decision-making (making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement).

Information in the CCG is held for a specific length of time depending on the type of information it is.  The length of time we retain your information for is defined by the NHS retention schedule which can be viewed online here: NHS Digital Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2016 

Once information has been reviewed and is no longer required to be kept by a retention period, the information will be securely destroyed.  

Paper records are destroyed via a contract which the Leicestershire County Council hold; services and electronic records are deleted by individuals in line with the information governance policy and the national records management code of practice.

NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG takes its duty to protect your personal information and confidentiality seriously. We are committed to taking all reasonable measures to ensure the confidentiality and security of personal data for which we are responsible, whether computerised or on paper.

Alongside the Data Protection Officer (DPO), we have appointed a Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) who is accountable for the management of all information assets and any associated risks and incidents, and a ‘Caldicott Guardian’ who is responsible for the management of patient information and patient confidentiality. 

All staff are required to undertake annual information governance training and are provided with an information governance handbook that they are required to read and agree to adhere to. The handbook ensures that staff are aware of their information governance responsibilities and follow best practice guidelines ensuring the necessary safeguards and appropriate use of person-identifiable and confidential information.

Under the NHS Confidentiality Code of Conduct, all our staff are also required to protect your information and inform you of how your information will be used. This includes, in most circumstances, allowing you to decide if and how your information can be shared.

Everyone working for the NHS is subject to the common law duty of confidentiality.  Information provided in confidence will only be used for the purposes advised and consented to by the service user, unless it is required or permitted by the law.

You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This privacy notice is one of NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s key methods for providing you with this information. In addition to this notice, we will provide you with more specific information at the time we collect personal data from you, such as when you apply for Continuing Healthcare or make a complaint to us.

You have the right to ask us for confirmation of whether we process data about you and if we do, to have access to that data so you are aware and can verify the lawfulness of the processing.

You can make your own application to see the information we hold about you, or you can authorise someone else to make an application on your behalf.  A child’s parent or guardian, a patient representative, or a person appointed by the Court may also apply. If you wish to ask us for confirmation of whether we process data about you or access your personal data, then please contact the Corporate Affairs Team at the CCG.

You are entitled to have personal data that we hold about you rectified, if it is inaccurate or incomplete. If we have passed the data concerned on to others, we will contact each recipient and inform them of the rectification – unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. If this is the case, we will explain to you why.

You have the right to have personal data we hold about you erased and to prevent processing in specific circumstances:

• Where the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was originally collected/processed
• If you withdraw your consent for us to process your data (if this was the basis on which it was collected)
• The personal data was unlawfully processed (i.e. a breach of UK data protection laws)
• The personal data has to be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation

However, if we have collected and are processing data about you to comply with a legal obligation for the performance of a public interest task or exercise of official authority, i.e. because we have a legal duty to do so in our functioning as a CCG, then the right to erasure does not apply.

You have the right to ‘block’ or suppress processing of your personal data which means that if you exercise this right, we can still store your data but not to further process it and will retain just enough information about you to ensure that the restriction is respected in future.

You can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in the following circumstances:

• If you contest the accuracy of the data, we hold about you we will restrict the processing until the accuracy of the data has been verified
• If we are processing your data as it is necessary for the performance of a public interest task and you have objected to the processing, we will restrict processing while we consider whether our legitimate grounds for processing are overriding
• If the processing of your personal data is found to be unlawful but you oppose erasure and request restriction instead; or
• If we no longer need the data we hold about you, but you require the data to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

If we have disclosed the personal data in question to others, we will contact each recipient and inform them of the restriction on the processing of the personal data – unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. If asked to, we must also inform you about these recipients.

We will inform you if we decide to lift a restriction on processing.

The right to data portability allows you to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services. It allows you to move, copy or transfer personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way, without hindrance to usability although it only applies where we are processing your personal data based on your consent for us to do so or for the performance of a contract and where the processing is carried out by automated means. This means that currently, the CCG does not hold any data which would be subject to the right to data portability.

Where the CCG processes personal data about you on the basis of being required to do so for the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority, you have a right to object to the processing. 

You must have an objection on grounds relating to your particular situation.

If you raise an objection, we will no longer process the personal data we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

As the CCG does not make any decisions based solely on automated processing, individuals’ rights in relation to personal data processed in this way are not applicable.

If the CCG processes data about you on the basis that you have given your consent for us to do so, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Where possible, we will make sure that you are able to withdraw your consent using the same method as when you gave it.  If you withdraw your consent, we will stop the processing as soon as possible.

Consent can be withdrawn by contacting the Data Protection Officer (Head of Corporate Governance and Legal Affairs) at the CCG.

NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group
Room G30, Pen Lloyd Building
County Hall, Glenfield
Leicester LE3 8TB

Telephone: 0116 295 3504 Email:  enquiries@EastLeicestershireandRutlandccg.nhs.uk  

NHS CHC is explained by NHS Choices here. The NHS Commissioning Board and CCGs (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, Part 6 places a duty on CCGs to make provision for, i.e. provide CHC services.

Our CHC services are provided through ML CSU whom we have commissioned to act as data processors in relation to our CHC services. To determine if someone is eligible for CHC and to then arrange a care and support package that meets their assessed needs, information about the individual will need to be collected, reviewed and shared with care providers such as care homes.

As the CCG has a duty to provide CHC services, this requires the collection of information about individuals for this purpose, the use of that information and the sharing of it with third parties who need to be involved in the process; we will make sure that we keep the individual concerned informed at all times of who will be providing or receiving data about them and why. 

An individual receiving care or their representative may apply for a review of a CCGs decision to decline funding by an Independent Review Panel. The independent review process is coordinated by the NHS CHC team in NHS England. 

Sources of personal data

The sources of personal data include: 

• Persons who will receive CHC services 
• Representatives of persons who will receive CHC services e.g. family members, lawyers 
• Care Homes, GPs, Hospitals and other Providers we commission

Categories of personal data

The information the CCG uses to assess eligibility, and which may be submitted to an Independent Review Panel, fall under the following headings: 

• behaviour 
• cognition (understanding) 
• communication 
• psychological/emotional needs 
• mobility 
• nutrition (food and drink) 
• continence 
• skin (including wounds and ulcers)
• breathing
• symptom control through drug therapies and medication
• altered states of consciousness
• other significant needs

Recipients of personal data

Personal data relating to a CHC application is received by: 

• Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (ML CSU) Continuing Healthcare teams 
• Internally in the CCG by the Nursing and Quality Team; the Personalised Commissioning Team; and the Corporate Affairs Team 
• The members of an independent review panel (at NHS England).  An independent review panel is made up of:
  • an independent lay member chair
  • a representative nominated by a Clinical Commissioning Group (not involved in the case);
  • a representative nominated by a Local Authority (not involved in the case); and at times there is also a clinical advisor in attendance

Legal basis for Processing

For GDPR purposes NHS ELR CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1) (e) – ‘…exercise of official authority…’ And for the processing of special categories (health) data, the CCG’s lawful basis is Article 9(2) (h) – ‘…health or social care…’

The NHS has a duty to spend the money it receives from the Government in a fair way, taking into account the health needs of the whole community. The CCG’s role is to ensure it gets best value for this money by spending it wisely on behalf of the public. 

CCGs pay for local NHS health services and NHS England pays for highly specialised health services. The CCGs have a legal duty to provide health services for patients with the fixed amount of money they have received from the Government. They have a legal duty not to spend more than this. This means that some hard choices have to be made. Not all treatments can be provided by the NHS. Treatments that are limited by CCGs are shown in their Clinical Commissioning Policies:

Our Commissioning and Corporate Policies

However, CCGs know that there will always be times when a patient would benefit from a particular treatment not usually provided by the NHS. To apply for this treatment, an Individual Funding Request (IFR) is made to allow the CCG to consider these requests, access to both personal and health information regarding the individual to whom the request relates is required. As the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, Part 7, Regulation 34 places a duty on CCGs in respect of the funding and commissioning of drugs and other treatments, this provides the CCG with a legal basis to use personal data as part of this process. 

IFRs are managed by NHS ELR CCG for itself and on behalf of NHS Leicester City CCG and NHS West Leicestershire CCG.

Sources of personal data

Most NHS care and treatment goes well but sometimes things can go wrong. If you are unhappy with your care or the service you have received, it is important to let us know so we can improve. When NHS ELR CCG receives a complaint, to allow it to be fairly and thoroughly managed, in most cases personal information will be required. CCGs have statutory duties (Section 6 of the Local Authority Social Services and NHS Complaints [England] Regulations (2009) (under section 113 “Complaints about Healthcare” of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003)) which allow the processing of personal data in relation to complaints. 

In order to process a complaint or concern, the CCG will collect the relevant information at the point of contact to enable the team to provide a sufficient response to the request. This process is managed by the CCG and is overseen by the Nursing and Quality Directorate.

Sources of personal data

The sources of personal data include: 

• Patients 
• Members of the public 
• Patient representatives 
• Members of Parliament 
• Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 
• Other CCG’s (with the consent of the individual) 
• Provider organisations we commission (with the consent of the individual) 
• NHS England (with the consent of the individual)

Categories of personal data

Information relating to complaints would generally include the following categories of personal data: 

• Patient’s name 
• Patient’s address 
• Patient’s contact number 
• GP Surgery 
• Patient’s NHS number 
• Patient’s date of birth 
• Representative details (if applicable) 
• Representative address (if applicable) 
• The nature of the complaint 

Recipients of personal data

The recipients of personal data relating to complaints include: 

• Any team within the CCG that may receive an enquiry or complaint 
• ML CSU who manage other services on behalf of the CCG under contract 
• Relevant providers (with the consent of the data subject) in order to fully investigate the complaint being made 
• Members of Parliament 
• Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 
• Other CCG’s (with the consent of the individual) 
• NHS England (with the consent of the individual)

Legal basis for Processing

For the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) purposes NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For the processing of special categories data, the basis is Article 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’.

NHS ELR CCG shares responsibility for accounting to the public and to Parliament for policies, decisions and activities across the health and care sector. Accountability to Parliament will often be required through responses to parliamentary questions, enquiries from MPs on behalf of their constituents, and appearances before parliamentary committees. In doing so, NHS ELR CCG collect relevant information at the point of contact to enable the CCG to provide a response to the request.

Sources of personal data

The sources of personal data include: 

• MP 
• Constituent of the MP 
• Parliament or DHSC 
• Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

Categories of personal data

The data collected by NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG is stored in the Corporate Affairs Team’s central files. These will include: 

• An individual’s name, contact information and any other information relating to the query 
• MPs information

Recipients of personal data 

The information, including information about the member of the public and MP is used by: 

• NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s Accountable Officer 
• NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s Nursing and Quality Directorate and the Communications Team 
• Any other team within NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG that may directly receive such requests and/or hold any information relevant to the request 
• The Commissioning Support Unit under contract with NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG in the handling of any relevant information that they hold on behalf of NHS ELR CCG. 

Legal basis for Processing

For the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) purposes, NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For the processing of special categories data, the basis is Article 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’. 

Whistleblowing is the term used when a worker contacts us with a concern about an organisation and its services. The concern will typically (although not necessarily) be regarding something they have witnessed at work. 

NHS ELR CCG can investigate cases relating to Providers it has a contract with.

Sources of personal data

Information will be provided by: 

• The whistleblower regarding themselves and those involved in the issues leading to the concerns raised 
• Those considered at risk 
• Providers we commission services from 

Categories of personal data

Data collected can be anonymous from the whistleblower depending on the nature in which the information is provided. Other times: 

• Name 
• Contact details 
• Specific elements relating to the concerns may be collected, i.e. personal information regarding another employee, or those concerned to be at risk (name, contact information etc.). 

Recipients of personal data

The information is used by: 

• NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and relevant teams for the purposes of investigation 
• An alternative external body such as the following: o Fraud and corruption – NHS Counter Fraud Authority o Serious patient safety issues or issues relating to condition of registration – Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Allegations regarding a clinician’s fitness to practice – relevant professional regulator or healthcare body (CQC)
• Safeguarding- Issues will be dealt with in accordance with NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG safeguarding policies.

Legal basis for Processing

For the GDPR purposes NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For the processing of special categories data the basis is Article 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’.

In certain situations, because of its commissioning responsibilities NHS ELR CCG is required to become involved in legal proceedings such as claims for compensation; court of protection orders; Coroner’s Court; and court orders. 

It is therefore necessary for it to process personal and special categories of data for the purpose of, or in connection with, legal proceedings (including prospective legal proceedings), for the purpose of obtaining legal advice, or for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending legal rights. These legal proceedings include claims.

Sources of personal data

These will include:

• An individual’s name, contact information and any other information relating to the situation, including informationabout the care and treatment provided to the individual
• Information about the representative of an individual
• Information about the family and/or carers of an individual
• Information about the health and social care professionals involved in an individual’s care
• Information about court officials

Categories of personal data

The sources of data include:

• The Courts
• Representatives of anindividual
• Lawyers
• GPs and other Providers we commission
• Health and social care professionals involved in an individual’s care

Recipients of personal data

These include:

• The Courts
• Representatives of an individual
• Lawyers
• GPs and other Providers we commission
• Health and social care professionals involved in an individual’s care

Legal basis for Processing

Where we process personal data for Court of Protection purposes, the legal basis for doing so is:

• Article 6(1)(c) – processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject
• Article 6(1)(e) – processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller; or
• Article 6(1)(f) – processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller.

Where we process special categories of personal data for these purposes, the legal basis for doing so is:

• Article 9(2)(f) – processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
• Article 9(2)(g) – processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest

Patient and public participation is an essential part of NHS ELR CCG’s way of working. It is one of the legal duties of the CCG. We want to build strong and supportive communications and, patient experience and stakeholder engagement relationships, so that we can work in partnership and use people’s experiences and views to inform our work. 

NHS ELR CCG offer various services to the public by giving them the opportunity to communicate, engage and share their experiences with us. These could be engaging with members of the public and professional colleagues regarding: 

• Contacting the CCG through its contact forms online 
• The latest news and information from the CCG 
• Providing consultation feedback opportunities on initiatives 
• CCG membership services 
• Invitations to events and details on how to get involved; 
• Survey activities 
• Social media channels and opportunities such as Facebook ,Twitter and Hootsuite 
• Media enquiries 

However, we only use these details to provide the service the person has requested and for other closely related purposes. For example, we might use information about people who have requested a publication to carry out a survey to find out if they are happy with the level of service they received or if the information is useful to them. 

Any personal data received in response to communication, stakeholder and patient experience activities, is removed before responses are collated, analysed or disseminated. The CCG may use an external provider (e.g. ML CSU) as a data processor to support our communication, stakeholder engagement and patient experience activities. 

Sources of personal data

These include: 

• Name 
• Age address and postcode 
• E-mail address 
• Whether the applicant can access e-mail 
• Whether the applicant is a: o patient or health service 

Categories of personal data

These include: 

• Name
• Age address and postcode
• E-mail address
• Whether the applicant can access e-mail
• Whether the applicant is a:
  • patient or health service user(current or previously)
  • carer of a patient currently /previously using healthservices
  • representative of a patient organisation
• Ability to use telephone, e-mail, and internet to communicate and take part in meetings
• Ability to commit time
• Any access or support needs to enable participation

Recipients of personal data

By CCG teams in the routine course of their work with relevant stakeholders, e.g. at events, during consultations

• When members of the public voluntarily contact NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and ask to be placed on a relevant mailing list for updates or to become members of the CCG etc.
  Our Strategic Transformation Partner organisations e.g. other CCGs in Leicestershire, Local Authorities, Voluntary organisations, GPs, Provider organisations we commission, NHS England

Categories of recipients

• Members of the public
• Our website data processor provider
• Our mailing services data processor provider
• Our surveys processing provider
• Internal CCG staff
• Our Strategic Transformation Partner organisations e.g. other CCG’s in Leicestershire, Voluntary organisations, GP’s, Provider organisations we commission, NHS England

Legal basis for Processing

For the GDPR purposes NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For the processing of special categories data the basis is Article 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’.

NHS ELR CCG is committed to the improvement of quality and delivery of services. It has therefore set up and uses various processes to ensure the quality of care it commissions is excellent. To improve quality and for patient safety purposes, the CCG uses personal data and special category data, which include: 

• Incident reporting 
• Serious incidents requiring investigation (SIRI), evidence and reports relating to incidents under various policy and procedural structures 
• Quality visits to our commissioned providers 
• Safety alerts 

An incident requiring investigation is defined as an incident that occurred in relation to NHS-funded services and care resulting in unexpected or avoidable death, harm or injury to patient, carer, staff or visitor. Improving quality and patient safety is managed internally by the Patient Safety Team who process activities for NHS Leicester City CCG and NHS West Leicestershire CCG too.

Sources of personal data

Incident events are recorded across the CCG, and from within all systems and services commissioned by NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG. These include: 

• Staff 
• GPs 
• Patients 
• Commissioned acute provider organisations e.g. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust 

Categories of personal data

The data received by NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG includes a record for each incident including (if relevant): 

• Patient or staff name 
• NHS Number 
• Other personal details, including relevant healthcare records 
• Information about the incident, including others involved or impacted by the event. 

Recipients of personal data

The information is used by the relevant team or department together with Nursing and Quality Team, and Corporate Affairs team in NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG. 

Legal basis for Processing

For the GDPR purposes NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For the processing of special categories data the basis is Article 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’.

Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs), Transforming Care Programme (TCP), Individual Case Review and Best Interest Decision Reviews are part of NHS ELR CCG’s commitment to transforming services for people with learning disabilities, autism or both. They are used by commissioners for people living in the community, in learning disability and mental health hospitals and care homes. 

These activities also help to improve the quality of care people receive by asking key questions and making recommendations that lead to improvements in safety, care and treatment. They reduce the amount of time people spend in hospital and bring people together to help to sort out any problems which can keep people in hospital longer than necessary. They do this by helping to improve current and future care planning, including plans for leaving hospital. 

Our Care and Treatment review process is managed internally within the CCG and it is also supports NHS Leicester City CCG and NHS West Leicestershire CCG.

Sources of personal data

• Patients
• Representatives of Patients
• NHS Providers of health care e.g. hospitals
• Care homes
• Private providers

Categories of personal data

NHS ELR CCG processes personal data to organise CTRs, including:

• Name and home address
• NHS number
• Date of current admission and estimated date of discharge
• Consent to the Care and Treatment Review
• Date(s) and venue(s) of panelmeeting(s)

Recipients of personal data

• Patients
• Representatives of Patients
• Providers of health care(including the CTR panel members consisting of experts by experience)

Legal basis for Processing

For the GDPR purposes NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For the processing of special categories data the basis is Article 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’.

Safeguarding 

NHS ELR CCG is dedicated to ensuring that the principles and duties of safeguarding adults and children are holistically, consistently and conscientiously applied with the wellbeing of all, at the heart of what it does. NHS Leicester City CCG provides safeguarding services for NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and NHS West Leicestershire CCG. 

Sources of personal data

NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG will either receive or collect information when any person contacts the CCG with safeguarding concerns or we believe there may be safeguarding concerns. These include: 

• Members of Public 
• Representative of people at risk 
• The relevant Safeguarding Boards 
• Local Authorities 
• Police 
• Healthcare professionals (i.e. their GP or mental health team) 
• Providers we commission where relevant. 

Categories of personal data

The data collected by NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG staff on behalf of itself and the other CCGs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland in the event of a safeguarding situation will be as much personal information as is necessary, or possible to obtain, in order to handle the situation. These include: 

• Basic demographics and contact details 
• Special category information (such as health information). 

This information is documented from various sources in various forms such as: 

• GP Records – Consultation Information sheets 
• Serious Case Review reports 
• Domestic Homicide Review Reports 
• Individual Agency Summary Reports 
• Child Protection Plans 

Recipients of personal data

We share information accordingly to ensure duty of care and investigation as required with other partners that include: 

• The relevant Safeguarding Boards 
• Local Authorities 
• Police 
• Healthcare professionals (i.e. their GP or mental health team) 
• Providers we commission where relevant.
• 72 Hour incident forms / Serious Incident forms 
• Individual Safeguarding reports 
• Overview reports 
• CHC Packages of Care 
• GP Practitioner Performance report – GP Names and Professional Registration number 

Legal basis for Processing

For the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) purposes is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For the processing of special categories data, the basis is Article 9(2)(b) – ‘processing is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law…’

Reimbursements to patients 

As part of NHS policy, the CCG is required to process and support financial payments to patients and their families when they have incurred financial expenses, such as through the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme (https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/help-with-health- costs/healthcare-travel-costs-scheme-htcs/). NHS ML CSU is our data processor for reimbursement purposes. 

Sources of personal data

• Patients 
• Representatives of patients 

Categories of personal data

• Name 
• Contact details 
• NHS number 

Recipients of personal data

• Patients
• Representative s of patients
• NHS ML CSU
• NHS Business Services Authority

Legal basis for Processing 

As a data controller NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG relies upon

• Article 6(1)(e) ‘…a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller’.

Invoice validation is an important process as it involves using your NHS number to check that we are the CCG that is responsible for paying for your treatment. ML CSU is an accredited Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF) under a Section 251 exemption, which enables them to process patient identifiable information on behalf of NHS ELR CCG without consent for the purposes of invoice validation – CAG 7-07(a)(c)/2013. We will also use your NHS number to check whether your care has been funded through specialist commissioning, which NHS England will pay for. The process makes sure that the organisations providing your care are paid correctly.

Sources of personal data

• The sources of data are providers who submit invoices to NHS Shared Business Services for payment.

Categories of personal data

• The data required for effective 

For the General Data invoice validations can be found 

Protection Regulation in appendix B. of “Who Pays?Information Governance Advice  for Invoice Validation” which you can find here https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/who-pays-advice.pdf 

Recipients of personal data

NHS ML CSU will receive personal data relating to invoice validation as an accredited Controlled Environment for Finance.

Legal basis for Processing 

For the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) purposes is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority… For special categories (health) data the basis is 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’.

Risk stratification is a process GPs use to help them to identify and support patients with long-term conditions and to help prevent unplanned hospital admissions or reduce the risk of certain diseases developing such as type 2 diabetes. This process is used for case- finding and is a type of profiling as it is the automated processing of personal data to analyse or predict health needs. However, this is not a solely automated process as whilst cases are identified through an automated process, no decisions are made automatically; they are made by the GP. 

The CCG also uses risk stratified data to understand the health needs of the local population in order to plan and commission the right services, which is called ‘risk stratification for commissioning.’ Risk stratification tools use historic information about patients, such as age, gender, diagnoses and patterns of hospital attendance and admission collected by NHS Digital from NHS hospitals and community care services. This is linked to data collected in GP practices and analysed to produce a risk score. 

GPs are able to identify individual patients from the risk stratified data when it is necessary to discuss the outcome and consider preventative care. However, the CCG can never identify an individual from the risk stratified data that we see. Where the risk stratification process has linked GP data to health data obtained from other sources i.e. NHS Digital or other health care provider, the GP will ask for your permission to access the details of that information. NHS ML CSU is our data processor for risk stratification purposes. 

Sources of personal data

Personal data is supplied by GPs and NHS Digital (Secondary Use Services Data)

Categories of personal data

Data from the GP Practice system will be obtained by using a “bulk data extract”, uploaded directly by the risk stratification tool supplier from the practice system. Prior to the upload, the supplier will obtain permission from the practice to request the data from the practice system provider and the practice will notify their system providers that this permission has been granted.

The data extract will EXCLUDE patients who have expressed a wish not to share information. Reports produced from the system including identifiable data are only provided back to your GP or member of your care team as data controller in an identifiable form. Your GP can provide more information about . any risk stratification programme they are using. Should you have any concerns about how your information is managed at the surgery please contact the Practice Manager to discuss how the disclosure of your personal information can be limited. The Secondary Uses Service
(SUS) is the single, comprehensive repository for healthcare data in England which enables a range of reporting and analyses to support the NHS in the delivery of healthcare services. Information on care provided for all patients by health care providers (both NHS and independent sector healthcare providers for NHS patients only) must be submitted to the Secondary Uses Service according to the Commissioning Data Set Mandated Data Flows guidelines.

Recipients of personal data

The combined CCG’s Secondary Use Service (SUS) data and GP data which contains an identifier (usually NHS number) is made available to clinicians with a legitimate relationship with their patients to enable them to identify which patients should be offered targeted preventative support to reduce those risks. NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG does not have access to identifiable information. 

Legal basis for Processing 

For the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) purposes is Article 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority… For special categories (health) data the basis is 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’.

We use information collected by NHS Digital from healthcare providers such as hospitals, community services and GPs, which includes information about the patients who have received care and treatment from the services that we fund.

Sources of personal data

Categories of personal data

The data we receive does not include patients’ names or home addresses, but it will usually include information such as: 

• NHS number 
• Postcode 
• Date of birth 
• Ethnicity 
• Gender 
• Coded information about visits to clinics, Emergency Departments, hospital admissions and other NHS services.

Recipients of personal data 

Legal basis for Processing

For GDPR purposes NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG’s lawful basis for processing is 6(1)(e) ‘…exercise of official authority…’. For special categories (health) data the basis is 9(2)(h) ‘…health or social care…’. The Secretary of State for Health has given limited permission for us (and other NHS commissioners) to use certain confidential patient information when it is necessary for our work and unless we have a legal basis to use identifiable data; de-identified information is used for all purposes other than direct care. This approval is given under Regulations made under Section 251 of the NHS Act 2006 and is based on the advice of the Health Research Authority’s Confidentiality and Advisory Group. In order to use this data, we have to meet strict conditions that we are legally required to follow, which includes making a written commitment to NHS Digital that we will not use information in any way that would reveal your identity.