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15:20:34 on Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Lisa Wingfield
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>GP practices want to use some software which uses patient's names to
>assign them individually with an ethnic origin. They then want to enter
>this information into the GP system. They believe that this is
>acceptable practice and does not breach the DPA. I have said that the
>data quality/accuracy can not be guaranteed therefore would be in
>breach of the DPA, but in addition to this I not convinced about the
>ethical/legal or moral issues sounding this. Is there any legislation
>which will prevent them from doing this?
Ask them whether they'd enter "Cat Stevens" or "Yusuf Islam".
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Roland Perry
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