This was a collection of patient objections information from General Practices via Secure Electronic File Transfer (SEFT). The information was used to monitor number of patient objections and enable NHS Digital to ensure that the wishes of patients who had recorded a type 2 objection (NHS digital were instructed not to share a patients confidential information beyond their individual care), or the withdrawal of a type 2 objection, were respected.

This manual collection was no longer required as it was superseded by DCB3058 Compliance with National Data Opt-outs; the last manual collection of data took place in October 2018.