Document name:
Patient Objections Management (Non GPES sites)
Standardisation
Committee for
Care Information
(SCCI)
Directorate/Programme
Clinical & Information Governance
Document reference
SCCI2199/R01210
Owner
Gwen Smith (Head of SCCI –
HSCIC)
Status
Approved
Author
Sabrina Ali (SCCI - HSCIC)
Version
1.0
Version issue date
25/07/2016
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Document Management
Reviewers
This document must be reviewed by the following people:
Reviewer name
Title / Responsibility
Senior Development
Support Manager
Abid Ahmad
Date
Version
25/7/16
0.1
Approved by
This document must be approved by the following people:
Name
Signature
Gwen Smith
Title
Head of SCCI Services
Date
Version
09/08/2016
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Glossary of Terms
Term / Abbreviation
What it stands for
BAAS
Burden Advice and Assessment Service
SCCI
Standardisation Committee for Care Information
POMS
Patient Objections Management
Document Control:
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attachment), are considered to have passed out of control and should be checked for
currency and validity.
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SCCI Services Executive Summary
1.
Collection Title
Patient Objections Management (Non GPES sites)
2.
SCCI No
SCCI2199
A collection of Patient Objections information from GP
Practices where extraction via GPES is not possible.
The NHS Constitution states “You have the right to
request that your confidential information is not used
beyond your own care and treatment and to have your
objections considered”.
3.
Collection Purpose
The Health and Social Care Information Centre
(HSCIC) has been Directed to establish a collection to
manage such Patient Objections by the Department of
Health, on behalf of the Secretary of State, under
s.254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
The information required for collection includes:
1. Aggregate counts of the number of Type 1 and
Type 2 Patient Objections by GP Practice
2. Record Level Type 2 Patient Objections data
including NHS Number, Objection Event Code
and Date Event
This information is routinely recorded within GP
systems.
3.
Audience and Scope
A collection from GP Systems into an Excel/Open
document pro-forma to be submitted via the HSCIC
Secure Electronic File Transfer (SEFT) system.
4.
Collection Status
This is a Mandatory, Monthly Collection
5.
Collection Start Date
30th June 2016
6.
Collection End Date
Action Required by SCCI
31st March 2017
7.
SCCI to accept this Collection
Development Support
8.
Summary of
Recommendations
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This has been categorised by IAP as a low, one
stage Collection.
Development Support recommends developers
should be made aware of the requirement to
use Open Document Format, where required
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BAAS
The BAAS has assessed the burden as £79k (160 days)
based on responses to consultation and engagement
with providers of data.
For the Collection owner:
1. Estimated cost/time for all practices (based on 200
GP Practices) is £79k (160 days).
2. To follow up with GPs next year to check if the
burden time has decreased
3. To provide a list of contacts to allow liaison with
providers of data and to facilitate the issuing of
surveys.
4. To include detailed instructions in the guidance for
GP Practices where Collection via GPES is not
possible.
Low One Stage Collection
9.
10.
IAP Agreed Decision
Information Governance
Assessment
11. Clinical Safety Assessment
This has been categorised by IAP as a low, one stage
Collection, because it is a business as usual,
mandatory Collection, with a low burden and low risk.
This collection contains personal confidential
information and a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
has been completed by the collection owner. NHS
Digital Information Governance has reviewed the PIA
and confirmed that it meets information governance
requirements.
The Collection is outside of scope of ISB 0129 and a
clinical safety case report is NOT required.
From BAAS
Application
Form
From BAAS
Findings
Burden Days
160
160
Burden Costs
£79k
£79k
Set Up Costs
Nil
Nil
Other Costs
Nil
Nil
£79k
£79k
Description
12. Summary of Annual Burden
Figures
Total
13. Sponsor
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Trevor Anders (HSCIC)
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14. SRO
Martin Severs HSCIC)
15. Business Lead
Trevor Anders (HSCIC)
16. Owning Organisation
Department of Health
17. Requesting Organisation
Health and Social Care Information Centre
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