PART 9Health and adult social care services: information
C1CHAPTER 2F1NHS ENGLAND: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION ETC.
Pt. 9 Ch. 2: power to amend conferred (1.7.2022) by 2021 c. 3, s 43(3) (as inserted by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 101(5)(b), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30))
Functions: information systems
I1263C1Code of practice on confidential information
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F3NHS England must prepare and publish a code in respect of the practice to be followed in relation to the collection, analysis, publication and other dissemination of confidential information concerning, or connected with, the provision of health services or of adult social care in England.
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For the purposes of this section “confidential information” is—
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information which is in a form which identifies any individual to whom the information relates or enables the identity of such an individual to be ascertained, or
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any other information in respect of which the person who holds it owes an obligation of confidence.
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Before publishing the code, F4NHS England must consult—
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the Secretary of State, F5and
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such other persons as F7NHS England considers appropriate.
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NHS England must not publish the code without the approval of the Secretary of State.
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F9NHS England must keep the code under review and may revise it as it considers appropriate (and a reference in this section to the code includes a reference to any revised code).
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A health or social care body must have regard to the code in exercising functions in connection with the provision of health services or of adult social care in England.
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A person, other than a public body, who provides health services, or adult social care in England, pursuant to arrangements made with a public body exercising functions in connection with the provision of such services or care must, in providing those services or that care, have regard to the code.
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Pt. 9 Ch. 2 heading substituted (1.2.2023) by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/98), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(2) (with reg. 3)