Civil Registrations of Death

Agreements naming it

664

In term in September 2026

429

Organisations

267

Files released

1,601

Files released counts only files released externally by DARS. Access granted in NHS England's own systems, such as its Secure Data Environment, is not included.

How the register describes it

Recorded against the dataset on each agreement, and not always the same from one agreement to the next, so every value found is listed.

Type of data

• Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant
• Identifiable

Sensitivity

• Non-Sensitive
• Sensitive

Frequency of release

• Frequent Adhoc Flow
• One-Off
• Ongoing
• System Access

Legal basis for provision

• CV19: Regulation 3 (4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002
• Consent (Reasonable Expectation)
• GDPR does not apply to data solely relating to deceased individuals
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261 - 'Other dissemination of information'
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(2)(d)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(c)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(a)

19 more

• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(c)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(4)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)
• Informed Patient consent to permit the receipt, processing and release of data by NHS Digital
• National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
• Other-(CV19: Regulation 3 (1) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002)
• Other-For data subjects who have given informed consent, data is disseminated under Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(c)
• Other-For one subset of the cohort the data is disseminated under Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(7) and National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'. For the remainder of the cohort the data is disseminated under Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(2)(c).
• Other-GDPR does not apply to data solely relating to deceased individuals
• Other-General Data Protection Regulation Article 9 (2) (i) although GDP does not apply to data solely relating to deceased individuals. Dissemination: Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
• Other-National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'. ,
• Other-Regulation 3 (1) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002
• Other-Regulation 3 of The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002
• Other-Regulation 3 of The Health Services Regulations 2002
• Other-Regulation 3 of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information)
• Other-Section 251
• Other-Section 251 of NHS Act 2006
• for all other data subjects, data is disseminated under Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(7) and National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'

Organisations whose agreements name it (267)

Agreements covering this dataset

Showing all 664 agreements.

Files: files of this dataset released under the agreement, across all its versions.