Hi,
A similar piece of work was carried out in Hackney. Basically, the
project involved matching data in the following databases:
GP register - City & Hackney PCT
Births & deaths - City & Hackney PCT
Electoral roll - Hackney Council
Council tax liable person - Hackney Council
Council Tax benefit recipients - Hackney Council
School pupil register - the Learning Trust
Housing Tenure - LBH
Property Gazetteer - LBH
The only data shared was that necessary to confirm who a person is, and
the full data is only being used to confirm numbers. They started with
the GP register as this seems to be the most comprehensive. The study
showed that the census data from 2001 massively under estimated the
population of the borough, which is having an effect on our ability to
fund services. I think this is increasingly a problem for areas with
largely transient populations.
I was not involved (or in fact here) when the project was ongoing, but
if you would like further information, contact me off list and I will
put you in touch with the project manager. From a DPA point of view, I
think the processing falls under Schedule 2 Condition 5(d) in that its
for a function of a public nature and is exercised in the public
interest.
Kind regards,
Zoe
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Subject: Information sharing between NHS and Councils for Census
planning
Jim
Why?
What has an individual's medical information got to do with a council's
census information what is the relationship here, unless I am plainly
missing the point here I can see no lawful grounds under DPA for the
sharing of this sensitive type data to support a census form (unless
there is of course a statutory requirement to do so). Its not for the
names and addresses is it because the council has the name address of
everyone in their borough in order to collect council/NNDR tax.
Would be interesting to know what the grounds are being cited and what
type of NHS data are they looking to share?
Trish Bailey MSc
Telford & Wrekin Council
Information Governance
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Sent: 17 December 2008 14:46
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Subject: Information sharing between NHS and Councils for Census
planning
It is being proposed to share information about people's GP Practice
registration with the city council in order to support the
preparation/planning being undertaken in advance of the 2011 census.
If anyone has views or information to share about this, I'd be glad to
hear from them.
Regards
Jim Whitaker
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