Part 1The Care Quality Commission
Chapter 6Miscellaneous and General
Information
80Code of practice on confidential personal information
1
The Commission must prepare and publish a code in respect of the practice it proposes to follow in relation to confidential personal information.
2
The code must in particular make provision—
a
about the obtaining by the Commission of information which, once obtained, will be confidential personal information, and
b
about the handling, use and disclosure by the Commission of confidential personal information.
3
Before publishing the code, the Commission must consult—
a
the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care, and
b
such other persons as it considers appropriate.
4
The Commission must keep the code under review and, if it considers it appropriate, from time to time publish a revised code (and references in this section to the code include any revised code).
5
In this section “confidential personal information” means information which—
a
is obtained by the Commission on terms or in circumstances requiring it to be held in confidence, and
b
relates to and identifies an individual.
6
For the purposes of subsection (5)(b), information obtained by the Commission is to be treated as identifying an individual if the individual can be identified from a combination of—
a
the information, and
b
other information obtained by the Commission.