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Data Protection Act 1998 -click here

 

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.