2021 GP collection - misc documents

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Dear NHS Digital,

This request relates to the project leading to this Data Provision Notice: https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital...

Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please provide:

1) Any (draft) letters or leaflets to inform patients of their rights to to opt out as covered in the DPN

2) The document for the NHSD senior management team containing:

a) how the project differs (or is the same as) “care.data” (the similar 2013-2015 programme for which this DPN is the successor);

b) any estimate of dissent increases resulting from i) the programme, ii) the DPN, iii) the forms/letters/leaflets covered in page (1) and the NHS-provided Type 1 opt-out form;

3) Copies of formal advice or responses (i.e. what would normally be letters on letterheads rather than comments on documents) to NHS Digital GPDfPR programme board / team from:

a) NDG,
b) ICO,
c) Council of Caldicott Guardians,
d) Understanding Patient Data,
e) useMyData.

Yours faithfully,
Phil Booth

NHS Digital Enquiries (NHS DIGITAL),

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Subject: Freedom of Information request - 2021 GP collection - misc
documents

Dear NHS Digital,

This request relates to the project leading to this Data Provision Notice:
[6]https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital...

Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please provide:

1) Any (draft) letters or leaflets to inform patients of their rights to
to opt out as covered in the DPN

2) The document for the NHSD senior management team containing:

a) how the project differs (or is the same as) “care.data” (the similar
2013-2015 programme for which this DPN is the successor);

b) any estimate of dissent increases resulting from i) the programme, ii)
the DPN, iii) the forms/letters/leaflets covered in page (1) and the
NHS-provided Type 1 opt-out form;

3) Copies of formal advice or responses (i.e. what would normally be
letters on letterheads rather than comments on documents) to NHS Digital
GPDfPR programme board / team from:

a) NDG,

b) ICO,

c) Council of Caldicott Guardians,

d) Understanding Patient Data,

e) useMyData.

Yours faithfully,

Phil Booth

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Dear Phil Booth,

Many thanks for your recent request to NHS Digital.

We have now received a reply to this from our colleagues in the
Information Governance team.

Please see the attached file(s).

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Phil Booth left an annotation ()

NHS Digital eventually provided a copy of the GP(DPR) Data Programme Board papers - from November 2016 to February 2021 - in response to Sam's request, here:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/g...

We have unzipped and linked to all of the papers here:

https://medconfidential.org/wp-content/u...