Socio-Economic Status (SES) Consent

CPRD is collecting additional data to enable linkages to other sources. This provides a significant enhancement to the range of research undertaken using CPRD.

The data is transmitted in an encrypted form, unseen by CPRD staff, to a trusted third party who has no access to the CPRD, this ensures patient confidentiality and anonymity.

The transmission includes the following:

  • all patients regardless of their Vision 3 3 registration status.
  • excludes patients that have refused consent for CPRD Data Collection. This is recorded on the Consent tab within the patient's registration, see Registration - Consent on line help.

and consists of:

  • Vision Patient ID.
  • Vision Practice Number.
  • Post code.
  • NHS/CHI number.
  • Date of birth.
  • Transferred out date.
  • Date of death if indicated by patient record.
  • Sex.
  • Collection date.

This data is collected as part of the CPRD data collection process, but is then encrypted and transmitted to a secure Vision server ready for processing and sending on to the trusted third party as required.

If you would like to allow this type of data to be collected, you must give consent via the CRPD record linkage data collection screen.

Note - You can change your consent at any time using the same option.

To change the consent for SES:

  1. From the Vision 3 3 front screen, select Modules and then CRPD Data Collection.
  2. Enter your user number if requested and select OK.
  3. Select Options and then Change SES consent.

  4. The CPRD record linkage data collection screen displays:

  5. Select the consent you require:
    • Given - Select to allow the SES data to be transmitted.
    • Not Given - The default option, select to not transmit SES data.
  6. Select OK to save and close.