Your data, your choice

You can choose whether your de-identified patient data is made available to researchers by the Wessex Secure Data Environment for audit, research and planning.  In some cases, you can also make a choice for someone else, like your children (under 13) or someone you care for.

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Your choice will not affect your care

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Donating your patient data ensures that researchers have more complete and representative information for research into new treatments and technologies.

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If you're happy with your information being used for audit, research and planning, you do not need to do anything. 

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Further information about your choices is available on the NHS website – your NHS data matters.

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You can complete the national data opt out form on the NHS Digital website here.

 

The phone number for the national data opt out is 030 03 03 56 78 – Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (excluding bank holidays).

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Ongoing consideration is being given to a local opt-out option for data held exclusively in Wessex for research using the Wessex SDE. This is being discussed with the NHS Research SDE Network, Health Research Authority and members of the public.

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If you would like more information about the local opt-out you can email the Wessex SDE at: WessexSDE@uhs.nhs.uk 

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