Where does NHS patient data go?

Where does NHS patient data go?

#NHSDATAFLOW

1. data is routinely recorded as part of THE MEDICAL RECORD

To enable effective care, NHS clinical systems hold records for all primary care episodes across ~6500 practices in England for 55 million patients.

Electronic records exist of all hospital episodes ('commissioning datasets') for the purposes of administration. In addition, the majority of NHS hospitals no longer use paper records. Instead, electronic software captures detailed data for all patient episodes.

NHS DigitalSECONDARY USES SERVICE

2. ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS ENABLE THE EXTRACTION OF PATIENT DATA AS DATASETS

HEALTH INFORMATIONEXCHANGE

GENERAL PRACTICE EXTRACTIONS

HOSPITAL EXTRACTIONS

There are four main ways in which NHS data is extracted from care providers for onwards use.

3. USING THESE SYSTEMS, DATA IS EXTRACTED AND STORED BY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ORGANISATION

PRIMARY CARE DATABASES

REGIONALCARe SYSTEMS

SHAREDCARE RECORDS

COMMERCIALEXTRACTORS

GENOMICS COHORTS

RESEARCH COHORTS

NHS DIGITAL

Data extractors maintain patient data and may provide secure research environments, that enable analysis to be performed

4. DATA EXTRACTORS MAY DISTRIBUTE DATASETS TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS FOR SECONDARY USES SUCH AS RESEARCH.

public

academic

NON-PROFIT

commercial

Abstraction of NHS ENGLAND Data flows from 2021 to 2022FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE Datainsights.uk