Information about our organisations’ merger and links to privacy information

In November 2021 the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Care set out their intention to merge Health Education England with NHS England, and also accepted a recommendation from the Chair of NHS Digital to merge NHS Digital with NHS England.

The expected date for NHS Digital to merge with NHS England is the 1^st February 2023, and the expected date for Health Education England to merge with the new NHS England is the 1^st April.

For data protection purposes, from 1^st February 2023 NHS England will become the controller responsible for the processing of personal data for activities performed by NHS Digital prior to this date.  Similarly, from 1^st April 2023 NHS England will become the controller responsible for the processing of personal data for activities performed by Health Education England prior to this date.

As part of this merger the organisation will be undergoing a transitionary process, and within that transition the organisation will be operating dual privacy notices to provide information about the new NHS England’s processing of personal data. From the respective merger dates, references to ‘NHS Digital’ and ‘Health Education England’ should be read as ‘NHS England’.

The NHS Digital notice can be found here. The Health Education England privacy notice can be found here. For subjects rights requests to your personal data you can contact either of the given contact details on the NHS England and NHS Digital privacy notices.