NHS Digital replaces system for collection of GP data
New system designed ‘with interests of patients at its heart’ will provide near-real-time primary care data to support improvements in healthcare and help research
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NHS Digital has announced the launch of a new platform to collect data from general practitioners (GPs) to meet new requests stemming from healthcare and researchers posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) service aims to improve primary care data collection and make it available to stakeholders ranging from clinicians to academics and commissioners.
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NHS Digital is setting up a new collection process to give planners and researchers faster access to pseudonymised patient data from GPs.
It has announced plans to replace the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) with a new General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) service.
The organisation has designed a new technical system that pseudonymises the data at source and encrypts it in transit, and issued a data provision notice to GPs to enable the new collection process to begin from 1 July.
It said the pandemic has led to a significant increase in the need for GP data for purposes such as identifying people most vulnerable to Covid-19, rolling out vaccines and supporting research. It was legally directed to collect and analyse information about patients, including from GP records, for the duration of the coronavirus emergency period.
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