Although the law makes a clear distinction between identifying and non-identifying data, where that line should be drawn may be far from clear in practice.
That is why this anonymisation standard for publishing health and social care data is needed. This process standard provides an agreed and standardised approach, grounded in the law, enabling organisations to:
distinguish between identifying and non-identifying information
deploy a standard approach and a set of standard tools to anonymise information to ensure that, as far as it is reasonably practicable to do so, information published does not identify individuals.
