General Practice Data for Planning and Research

NHS Digital is part of the NHS. It collects, analyses, publishes and shares data to improve everyone’s health and care.
Read more about NHS Digital.

We use the term patient data to refer to personal information in the rest of this notice.

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/general-practice-data-for-planning-and-research/gp-privacy-notice

If you don’t want your identifiable patient data (personally identifiable data in the diagram above) to be shared for purposes except for your own care, you can opt-out by registering a Type 1 Opt-out or a National Data Opt-out, or both. These opt-outs are different and they are explained in more detail in the above links. Your individual care will not be affected if you opt out using either option.

Opt out form (Link)