Coronavirus (COVID-19) response transparency notice
NHS Digital are undertaking a range of work to support the government response to the coronavirus outbreak. This notice details our legal bases for processing personal data in the course of this work.
Purpose
COVID-19 purposes include but are not limited to the following purposes:
- understanding COVID-19 and risks to public health, trends in COVID-19 and such risks, and controlling and preventing the spread of COVID-19 and such risks
- identifying and understanding information about patients or potential patients with or at risk of COVID-19, information about incidents of patient exposure to COVID-19 and the management of patients with or at risk of COVID-19 including: locating, contacting, screening, flagging and monitoring such patients and collecting information about and providing services in relation to testing, diagnosis, self-isolation, fitness to work, treatment, medical and social interventions and recovery from COVID-19
- understanding information about patient access to health services and adult social care services as a direct or indirect result of COVID-19 and the availability and capacity of those services
- monitoring and managing the response to COVID-19 by health and social care bodies and the Government including providing information to the public about COVID-19 and its effectiveness and information about capacity, medicines, equipment, supplies, services and the workforce within the health services and adult social care services
- delivering services to patients, clinicians, the health services and adult social care services workforce and the public about and in connection with COVID-19, including the provision of information, fit notes and the provision of health care and adult social care services
- research and planning in relation to COVID-19
INDEX - Coronavirus
- Appointments
- Coronavirus Vaccination Information
- Children & Coronavirus
- Covid-19 Research Trials
- Covid-19 Signposting
- Foreign language coronavirus videos
- Getting a test
- Helplines and Advice
- Information for Vulnerable / High Risk Patients
- Latest Updates
- Local Service Directory
- Practice Changes
- Prescriptions
- Response Transparency Notice
- Sickness and Self Isolation
- Sirona care contact
- Telephone and Video Consultations
- The Right Place for Medical Care
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