Northamptonshire County Council will have access to the following data:
Primary Care Mortality Database (PCMD) – The PCMD holds mortality data as provided at the time of registration of the death along with additional GP details, geographical indexing and coroner details where applicable.
Births and Vital Statistics datasets – Births files include date of birth, sex, birthweight, address, postcode, place of birth, stillbirth indicators and age of mother. Deaths data includes: deaths broken down by age, sex, area and cause of death sourced from the deaths register.
Hospital Episode Data (HES) – Is a data warehouse containing details of all admissions, outpatient appointments and A&E attendances at NHS hospitals in England. This data is collected during a patient's time at hospital and is submitted to allow hospitals to be paid for the care they deliver. HES data is designed to enable secondary use, that is use for non-clinical purposes, of this administrative data.
This data is supplied to Public Health by NHS Digital under section 42 (4) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, as amended by section 287 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and Regulation 3 of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002.
Lawful basis for processing this data
- Statutory public health duties that the data will be used to support:
- Duty to improve public health: Analyses of the data will be used to support the duty of the local authority under Section 12 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to take appropriate steps to improve the health of the population, for example by providing information and advice, services and facilities, and incentives and assistance to encourage and enable people to lead healthier lives.
- Duty to support Health and Wellbeing Boards: Analyses of the data will be used to support the duty of the local authority and the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)-led Health and Wellbeing Board under Section 194 of the 2012 Act to improve health and wellbeing, reduce health inequalities, and promote the integration of health and care services; the data will also be used to support the statutory duty of Health and Wellbeing Boards under Section 206 of the 2012 Act to undertake Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments.
- Duty to produce Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWBs): Analyses of the data will be used to support the duty of the local authority under Sections 192 and 193 of the 2012 Act to consult on and publish JSNAs and JHWSs that assess the current and future health and wellbeing needs of the local population.
- Duty to commission specific public health services: Analyses of the data will be used to support the local authority to discharge its duty under the Local Authorities Regulations 2013 to plan and provide NHS Health Check assessments, the National Child Measurement Programme, and open access sexual health services.
- Duty to provide public health advice to NHS commissioners: Analyses of the data will be used by Local Authorities to discharge its duty under the 2013 Regulations to provide a public health advice service to NHS commissioners.
- Duty to publish an annual public health report: Analyses of the data will be used by Directors of Public Health to support their duty to prepare and publish an annual report on the health of the local population under Section 31 the 2012 Act.
- Public Health responses on behalf of the local authority to licensing applications and other statutory local authority functions requiring public health input: Analyses of the data will be used by the Director of Public Health to support their duty under Part 3 of the National Health Services Act 2006 (as amended by Section 30 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012) to provide the local authority public health response (as the responsible authority under the Licensing Act 2003, as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 Schedule 5 - Part 1) to licensing applications.
Legal basis for access to civil registration data (mortality, births and vital statistics) DARs
This data assists local authorities in tailoring local solutions to local problems, and using all the levers at their disposal to improve health and reduce inequalities and it helps to create a 21st century local public health system, based on localism, democratic accountability and evidence as directed in the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Section 42(4) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007) as amended by section 287 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and Regulation 3 of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002.
Vital statistics:
- Processing: General Data Protection Regulation Article 9 (2) (h)
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General Data Protection Regulation Article 6 (1) (e)
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Dissemination: Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
Primary Care mortality data:
- Processing: General Data Protection Regulation Article 9 (2) (h)
- General Data Protection Regulation Article 6 (1) (e)
- Dissemination: Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
Births:
- Processing: General Data Protection Regulation Article 9 (2) (h)
- General Data Protection Regulation Article 6 (1) (e)
- Dissemination: Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
Categories of personal data processed
Mortality data:
Births:
- place of birth
- address and postcode of mother
- NHS number
- date of birth
HES:
- (Pseudo anonymised)
- age
- sex
- ethnicity
- GP
- details of health including diagnosis, treatment and admission details
Alongside your Right to Object, the NHS National Data Opt-out Programme gives you the right to opt out of your confidential patient information being used for reasons other than their individual care and treatment (such as for research and planning purposes). Patients and the public will be able to use the national system from 25 May 2018. All health and care organisations will be required to uphold patient and public choices by March 2020.
There are occasions where service providers will have a legal duty to share information, for example for safeguarding or criminal issues. The process for opting out will depend on the specific data and what programme it relates to. For further information, please contact the Public Health team by emailing phintelligence@northamptonshire.gov.uk.
Or write to us at:
Public Health Team, Northamptonshire County Council
One Angel Square
Northampton
NN1 1ED
Profiling and automated decision making
What is profiling?
Profiling is a form of automated processing, which is intended to evaluate you, and in particular to analyse or predict your:
economic situation
health
personal preferences
reliability
behaviour
location
movements
If we analyse your information in this way we will inform you that this is being done and offer you the option of objecting to that process being carried out.
In some cases we may refuse your request if the profiling is required by law.
Some decisions are made by machine calculation of data held and this right allows you to object to having decisions made by an automated process. The machine calculation of the data is known as profiling and could mean analysing and predicting your economic situation, your health, your location or movements, and your preferences or behaviour.
However, this right does not apply where the processing is necessary for a contract between you and the council, the processing is authorised by law with necessary safeguards to your rights and freedoms or you have given your explicit consent to the profiling.
The council does not currently undertake profiling that has a significant and / or legal impact on you but may at times use data held to identify populations impacted by policy and legislative changes.