OpenSAFELY DPIA templates
NHS England established the OpenSAFELY COVID-19 Service during the pandemic to support the use of data for COVID-19 purposes. Learning from the COVID-19 Service, the OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service pilot will support non-COVID-19 analysis, including research, clinical audit, service evaluation and health surveillance.
These services use pseudonymised GP data and other pseudonymised datasets from NHS England. NHS England’s information governance (IG) guidance explains how this data is used and under which legal bases, and provides information about access requests and approvals required to use the data.
The guidance also includes data protection impact assessment (DPIA) templates for GP practices to complete as controllers of the GP datasets used by the OpenSAFELY services. They can be further adapted by IG professionals as needed.
Last edited: 11 May 2026 2:13 pm