PART 9

Health and adult social care services: information
CHAPTER 2

NHS ENGLAND: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION ETC.

Functions: information systems

Requests for collection under section 255: confidential information
256
1
A request under section 255 is a confidential collection request if it is a request for NHS England to establish and operate a system for the collection of information which is in a form which—
a
identifies any individual to whom the information relates who is not an individual who provides health care or adult social care, or
b
enables the identity of such an individual to be ascertained.
2
A person may make a confidential collection request under section 255 only if the request—
a
is a mandatory request,
b
relates to information which the person making the request (“R”) may require to be disclosed to R or to NHS England by the person holding it, or
c
relates to information which may otherwise be lawfully disclosed to NHS England or to R by the person holding it.
S. 256 in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
Pt. 9 Ch. 2: power to amend conferred (1.7.2022) by 2021 c. 3, s 43(3) (as inserted by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 101(5)(b), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30))
Pt. 9 Ch. 2 heading substituted (1.2.2023) by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/98), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(2) (with reg. 3)
Words in s. 256 substituted (1.2.2023) by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/98), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8) (with reg. 3)