COVID-19 SGSS First Positives (Second Generation Surveillance System)

Agreements naming it

33

In term in September 2026

19

Organisations

20

Files released

206

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)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261 - 'Other dissemination of information'
• 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)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(c)

6 more

• National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
• Other-CV19: Regulation 3 (4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002
• Other-Coronavirus (COVID-19) notices under reg 3(4) of the Health Service Control of Patient Information Regulations 2002
• Other-Other(CV19: Regulation 3 (1) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002)
• Other-Para 8.3.2 of the Covid-19 Directions
• Other-Regulation 3 (1) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002

Organisations whose agreements name it (20)

Agreements covering this dataset

Showing all 33 agreements.

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

No longer in the register (2)

Agreements naming this dataset that earlier editions listed and the September 2026 edition does not. Each page shows what the register last said. None is counted in this site's figures.