Health, Social Care & Housing - Project timescales
Approximate timescales for key stages in the development of the pilot project, in table below.
| Milestone | Timescale |
| Consumer Panels on privacy | April-May 2011 |
| Linking Social Care, Housing & Health Data Project Governance Group plus SHIP rep sign off research questions, datasets to link and draft Privacy Impact Assessment | May-June 2011 |
| Contact South East Scotland Research Ethics Service to determine if project ‘research’ or ‘audit’ | June 2011 |
| Present project to Information Commissioner’s Office | July 2011 |
| Consult on project to all local authorities | June-December 2011 |
| Share project with Caldicott Guardian group & Health Boards | September-October 2011 |
| Submit ethics application if ‘research’ | October 2011 |
| Submit application to CHI Advisory Group | 20th October 2011 |
| Establish pilot areas | October-December 2011 |
| Local authorities and ISD Scotland to amend and issue ‘Privacy Notices/confidentiality leaflets if required. | October-December 2011 |
| Take project to Privacy Advisory Committee | December 2011 |
| Data Sharing Agreements | March 2013 |
| Deadline for local authorities to confirm participation in project, including names of analysts who would like access to the data. | April 2012 |
| Deadline for Health Boards to notify Scottish Government of any analysts who would like access to the data | April 2012 |
| Personal identifiers submitted to ISD Scotland’s data indexing team | December 2012 - March 2013 |
| Project ‘linkage ID’ to data controller organisations | December 2012 - March 2013 |
| LAs to submit unique IDs and linkage IDs to SG. | December 2012 - March 2013 |
| Social care and health data to ISD Scotland/SHIP’s data linking team | January - March 2013 |
| Anonymisation of linked data | January - April 2013 |
| Statistical Disclosure Control assessment/guidance | January - April 2013 |
| Anonymised linked data available for ‘approved’ analysts | Summer 2013 | |
| Review of pilot | Summer-Autumn 2013 |
| Roll out across remaining local authorities | Autumn 2013 |
A full version of the project plan is available as a PDF.
Page updated: Tuesday, March 05, 2013