MRIS - Personal Demographics Service

Agreements naming it

53

In term in September 2026

31

Organisations

28

Files released

2

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

• One-Off
• Ongoing

Legal basis for provision

• Approved researcher accreditation under section 39(4)(i) and 39(5) of the Statistical Registration Service Act 2007
• Consent (Reasonable Expectation)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261 - 'Other dissemination of information'
• 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)
• Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)

6 more

• 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-Exception
• Other-NHS Regulatons (3)
• Other-Secretary of State
• Section 42(4) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007) as amended by section 287 of the Health and Social Care Act (2012)

Organisations whose agreements name it (28)

Agreements covering this dataset

Showing all 53 agreements.

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