The National Clinical Homecare Association has issued some guidance on "Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation in Clinical and Medicines Homecare Services".
I was struck by one proposition it made, having rightly in my view determined that in providing care, the provider is a controller and not simply a processor for the commissioner: "At the point of referral, the clinical referral centre is the controller and the homecare provider is a data processor. The homecare provider remains data processor on behalf of the clinical referring centre until the patient is registered with the homecare provider."
Is that right? The provider is certainly a 'recipient' but to say that in this context they are a processor i.e. processing data "on behalf of" the referrer just looks wrong. It would have major implications across many activities and sectors.
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