<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><p style="color:#A0A0A8;">On 24 February 2014 at 14:16:18, Brian Morrison (<a href="mailto://bdm@fenrir.org.uk">bdm@fenrir.org.uk</a>) wrote:</p> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><div><div>On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:42:36 +0000<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Ian Batten wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>> HSCIS's rather unconvincing excuse is that the data was provided by a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> previous organisation and they wouldn't do it now. Hardly reassuring.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>No, that certainly isn't reassuring. It indicates that some lax<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>thinking must have gone on before.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>Oddly though, its also a statement that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.</p><p>From <a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/hes">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/hes</a></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">"In 1996 these bodies were abolished and the NHS-Wide Clearing Service (NWCS) was set up to provide a means of transmitting the records. In 2006 this work was taken over by the Secondary Uses Service, which is run by the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the National Programme for IT.</span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">”</span></font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">So it came under HSCIS’s remit in 2006. The data set was from 2000-2010. </span></font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">For tracking though, there is the HESID - </span></font><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/1370/HES-Hospital-Episode-Statistics-Replacement-of-the-HES-patient-ID/pdf/HESID_Replacement_Nov09.pdf">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/1370/HES-Hospital-Episode-Statistics-Replacement-of-the-HES-patient-ID/pdf/HESID_Replacement_Nov09.pdf</a></p><p>Which appears to include per-client pseudonym-ids. Data cleaning on release appears to be documented here - <a href="http://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/web_site_content/cds_supporting_information/security_issues_and_patient_confidentiality.asp?shownav=1">http://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/web_site_content/cds_supporting_information/security_issues_and_patient_confidentiality.asp?shownav=1</a></p><p><br></p><p>Dj</p><div></div></body></html>