The General Practice has appointed Barry Jackson to be their Data Protection Officer. The service is provided through a company called N3i.
The contact details for the DPO are:
Barry Jackson
Head of Information Governance
Email: n3i.dpo@nhs.net
For queries and urgent responses contact through N3i service desk:
Phone: 0300 002 0001
NHS England has been directed by the government to establish and operate the OpenSAFELY COVID-19 Service and the OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service. These services provide a secure environment that supports research, clinical audit, service evaluation and health surveillance for COVID-19 and other purposes.
Each GP practice remains the controller of its own GP patient data but is requried to let approved users run queries on pseudonymised patient data. This means identifiers are removed and replaced with a pseudonym.
Only approved users are allowed to run these queries, and they will not be able to access information that directly or indirectly identified individuals.
Patients who do not wish for their data to be used as part of this process can register a type 1 opt out with their GP.
Page last reviewed: 16 December 2025