How do you use my personal data
NHS England has been directed by the Government to establish and operate the OpenSAFELY COVID-19 service and the OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service. These services provide a secure environment that supports research, clinical audit, service evaluation, and health surveillance for COVID-19 and other purposes.
Each GP practice remains the data controller for its own patient data but is required to let approved users to run queries on pseudonymised patient data. This means that personal identifiers are removed and replaced with a pseudonym.
Only approved users are allowed to run these queries, and they will not be able to access information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals.