On Tuesday 04 May 2004 15:45, Gavin Jamie wrote:
> Based on
>
> >I recall that a perfectly reasonable apprehension that the old NHS ID
> >strings (sometimes termed "numbers") were not _garanteed_<sic> to be
> >unique
>
> I assumed randomness.
>
>
> The really interesting question would then be why it could not be
> guaranteed so.
Simple answer given was that there was no single complete list of everyone.
I'm reforming that particular bit of spelling, by all means draw attention to
it. The U is not useful.
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