John Clegg wrote: > DPA??? Can't see it. I have access to the data anyway, if it is on my clinical system. If I want to retrieve it anonymised I can/could. Typically this would be producing a list of people who needed something done, it is certainly using the data for a purpose whch the practice is registered under the DPA for. I used to generate a list for a label printer. The label printer software supplied by our PCT is interestingly limited. > 2009/5/20 Adrian Midgley <[log in to unmask]> > >> John Clegg wrote: >>> Certainly with iSOFT programs this would be best, and very easily, >>> implemented with an external SQL script rather than the application. But >> is >>> it legal? >> Why would it not be? >> >> I wrote a lot of SQL run off Python scripts against (a MySQL cpy >> extracted from) a previous clinial system, why would one not.