<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;">HSCIC have made a statement -</div><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><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/3932/Statement-on-use-of-Hospital-Episode-Statistics-HES-data">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/3932/Statement-on-use-of-Hospital-Episode-Statistics-HES-data</a></div><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><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">They appear to have been responsible for collection since 2006 but only handling the processing since 2013.</div><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><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Dj</div> <div id="bloop_sign_1393256324851408896" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div></div><p style="color:#A0A0A8;">On 24 February 2014 at 14:29:55, Gmail (<a href="mailto://codepope@gmail.com">codepope@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>
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<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>
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<div><span>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>
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> HSCIS's rather unconvincing excuse is that the data was
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> previous organisation and they wouldn't do it now. Hardly
reassuring.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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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>
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<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>
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"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>
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<p>Dj</p>
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