Data Protection Impact Assessments

All new projects, initiatives and processes that involve using or sharing personal information will have

a Data Protection Impact Assessment during the initial stages and prior to any procurement decision

being made. This helps to assess privacy risks to individuals and identifies the legal basis for the

collection, use and disclosure of information, known as processing.  All Data Protection Impact

Assessments when completed will be submitted to the Data Protection Officer for review and the

Caldicott Guardian for approval. 

The below document is available as a record of this activity to provide assurance to individuals whose

information Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) process.

For any further information please contact the Trust’s Data Protection Officer Gill Monteith by either

email: gill.monteith@nhs.net or telephone: 01244 397384

Data Protection Impact Assessments Completed

Title/description Date

All age disability & mental health service - Staff from Wirral Council will TUPE over to Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. They will continue to use the Liquid Logic case management system. The network and system will continue to be hosted and managed by Wirral Council on a dedicated server. However supporting information assets will also transfer with staff.

04/09/2018

Employment advisors in IAPT – Employment advisors employed by Cheshire West & Chester Council co-located with Trust staff to enable more people to receive combined psychological therapy and employment support to remain in, return to and find work.

30/10/2018

NHS Streamlining North West – Agreement to share information regarding NHS workforce between NHS trusts and some Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) in the region.

02/01/2019

Delivering EMIS for Enhanced Care Communities - Currently, CWP Community staff use the community EMIS system as their electronic patient record. When they access the community EMIS patient record, they have the ability to also see the GP patient record (for information purposes only). This provides the most up-to-date information from the GP. The changes will enable the Countess of Chester Hospital to access the patient’s community EMIS record, and therefore the GP patient record by default and will enable information to be shared with medical

08/02/2019

professionals working in the Countess of Chester Hospital.

EMIS - To enable information sharing between CWP Starting Well service and Vale Royal GPs so that records for children and families with a Vale Royal GP who reside in Northwich and Winsford District are visible to each service. This will support effective communication in relation to safeguarding children and in continuity of record and information that supports clinical decision making.

28/05/2019

Mastercall Ltd - Collection and analysis of existing data held on Adastra system which then populates “My Performance” to produce collective and individual performance data. The purpose of collecting information in this way is to provide individual and collective performance feedback for GP’s working in the GP Out of Hours Service.

24/07/2019

Silvercloud - the Silvercloud portal will allow patients to self-refer to the service using a digital offer. Patients can do an assessment on line and can undertake CBT on line which is a more efficient way of accessing treatment.

27/12/2019

Child Health Information System (CHIS) transfer of service - Provision of Child Health Information Services across Cheshire and Merseyside has been commissioned by NHSE/I from South Central and West CSU (SCW) to commence 1 April 2020. In order to ensure integrity of data within each child’s record and continuity of care for the child, a copy of the data must be available for testing prior to migration into the live system. Data will be made available by existing CHIS providers in good time for take-on of the service by SCW.

24/01/2020

Infection Prevention and Control Service East Cheshire - For the purpose of delivering effective Infection Prevention and Control services to the population of the Cheshire East Borough Council area, new links with Cheshire East Borough Council, East Cheshire NHS Trust, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The Microbiology Lab (East Cheshire NHS Trust) and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

06/04/2020

AccuRx (Fleming) Video Conferencing - For providing remote video consultations using the AccuRx (Fleming) system. The purpose of using

15/04/2020

video consultations on the AccuRx (Fleming) platform is to minimise face-to-face contacts between healthcare staff and their patients as by NHS England in the delivery of healthcare during the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Attend Anywhere – a web-based video consultation platform called ‘Attend Anywhere’, for video consultations. This is in the context of the coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19) and the Trust’s role as a category one responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

15/04/2020

Mental Health Crisis Line - The establishment of the mental health crisis line which will be manned by CWP staff. The crisis line will move towards the 111 governed system of voice recording. This is to provide ongoing training opportunities and also for the safety of callers and staff.

27/04/2020