The practice will not share personal identifiable data and or other confidential data about patients to support the planning of NHS and social care services, without seeking explicit patient consent to do this.
However, the Practice may share data about patients in a non-personal format (either anonymised* or pseudonymised) in order to support the planning of NHS and social care services. This data will only be used for health and social planning purposes and not for any other purposes (such as commercial, insurance or marketing purposes) Sharing of such data will be managed in accordance to a formal sharing arrangement and under tight Information Governance controls.
*Anonymisation: is the process of rendering data into a form which does not identify individuals or makes the risk of re-identification sufficiently low in a particular context that does not constitute personal data.