What personal data do we use?

We will collect your personal data in a variety of ways, whether this is via our online or paper forms, from a partner organisation as a referral or from you directly during conversations you have with our services either via telephone, email, in writing or face to face, to be able to deliver the services we provide.

Your personal data that we collect, use and share includes:

• Name and contact details
• Full address
• NHS number
• National Insurance number
• Geographic codes such as postcodes for the analysis of health inequalities
• Date of birth
• Family and next of kin/interested parties details
• Online identifiers such as IP Addresses or cookies
• Lifestyle and social circumstances
• Financial information
• Employment and educational details (including qualifications)
• Residential and right to work status
• Details of any State Benefit receipts
• Housing or social care needs
• Visual images, such as photographs or CCTV recordings
• Location data
• Information held in case files
• Any required additional supporting information including financial information about the organisation (required for Public Health Grants)

We also collect what is known as sensitive personal information (or special categories of data). This is often information you would not want widely known and is very personal to you, types of sensitive data can include:

• Criminal conviction data (including DBS checks)
• Racial or ethnic origin
• Political opinions
• Religious or philosophical beliefs
• Trade union membership
• Genetic and biometric data
• Mental or physical health details (including clinical records, care plans, social care assessments and substance misuse)
• Information from birth and death certifications (personal identifiable information from NHS Digital used for public health purposes)
• Information about the provision of Public Health services including:

1. 1. 1. Immunisations
      2. Control of infection
      3. Drug and alcohol treatment services
      4. Sexual health services
      5. 0-5 health services
      6. School nursing services
      7. National Child Measurement Programme
      8. Lifestyle and behaviour change services
      9. Screening programmes
      10. Refugee support schemes (including visa and immigration status)

• Information about lifestyle behaviours, including data collected from surveys
• Information about disease prevalence and health status
• Information about health and social care use, including:

1. 1. 1. GP services
      2. Hospital services
      3. NHS community services
      4. Mental health services
      5. Social care services

• Information relating to your domestic life
• Behavioural characteristics
• Details of periods of leave taken by you, including holiday, sickness absence, family leave and sabbaticals, and the reasons for the leave
• Sex life
• Sexual orientation
• Other public health initiatives