This page sets out how we use personal data, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It includes a register of processing activities, and your rights if information about you is included.
NHS Digital is the name we operate under. Our official name is the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which was created by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 as an executive non-departmental public body reporting to the Department of Health and Social Care.
Our legal duties include collecting, analysing and publishing health and care data, providing national technology infrastructure, producing information standards and providing advice and support on information and cyber security. Read more about NHS Digital.
This transparency notice provides information on our data processing activity.