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Health and Social Care Act 2012

Section 258 – Information systems: supplementary

1427.This section places a duty on the Information Centre to consult prior to establishing a new system for collecting or analysing information. This includes consulting the person who required or requested the collection or analysis, bodies from whom the Centre would require or request information and likely end users of the collected or analysed information. The section also provides for the Centre to be able to destroy information that it has collected or derived from a collection (for example through analysing it) when there is no longer a need to retain it.

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