Hi Marcus, list:
isn't that law a couple of years old?
as I understand it anyone who wants copies of records about them is expected
to pay "reasonable" administration costs for the extraction and mailing of
that information. General thinking seems to be that £10 will secure any
information.
Might it therefore be reasonable to expect someone who wants the information
in a different media to pay extra administrative costs, or in the spirit of
the DDA et al would it be unreasonable to expect a disabled person to pay
extra for the same service i.e provision of information.
Adrian Higginbotham,
SURFACE
Salford University, Research Focus on AcCessible Environments.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "marcus ormerod" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Confidentiality
> Hi all
>
> just a thought that struck me, as they do on a wet Friday afternoon, but
has
> anyone considered the implications of the changes to the data protection
act
> that have just come into force. I have read, but cannot claim to know
> categorically, that the new version gives a person access to any material
> stored in a system on them and specifically extends to include paper as
well
> as electronic media. This covers all people as far as I understand,
> employees, students, patients of doctors dentists, etc.
>
> My thought, for what it is worth, is about someone who wants to find out
> what someone else has written about them on their records and wants it in
a
> differing format to that which it was created. Say a person who is blind
> wants access to their records and specifically is interested in the hand
> written notes on them then they should be able to have those in an
> alternative format. However would their right come under the data
protection
> act, the DDA, SENDA?
>
> sorry to throw this one in to the melting pot.
>
> cheers
> marcus
>
> Marcus Ormerod
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> (Salford Research Focus on Accessible Environments)
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