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Useful Links The Data Protection Principles As data controllers, medical practitioners must comply with the data protection principles established by data protection legislation. Those principles require that personal data:- - shall be processed fairly and lawfully.- shall be obtained for one or more specified and lawful purposes and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose/purposes - shall be adequate, relevant and non excessive. - shall be kept for no longer than is necessary. - shall be protected by appropriate technical and organisation security measures. - shall not be transferred outside the European Economic Area without proper safeguards.
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