General Practice Staff Survey
The ICB are tasked with participating in the roll out of a General Practice Staff Survey across the area. I have reviewed all the documentation relating to the programme and am satisfied with the security and confidentiality assurances in place. A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) has established the information governance risk for the use of personal data as low. The survey provider, Picker, is a trusted research institute regularly appointed to conduct the NHS Staff Survey. Picker has robust data privacy and protection processes in place to securely process data on behalf of participating sites. Individual responses will be held by Picker and available only to their analysts, with reporting restricted to meet confidentiality requirements. The legal basis to allow ICBs to collate staff lists for the purposes of engagement such as staff surveys falls under article 6e of GDPR. The staff list information is collected “for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller”. NHSE, ICBs, PCNs, Federations and General Practices will not have access to the completed questionnaires, or any personal data linked to the survey.