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Genetic data

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NHS England Transformation Directorate: Information Governance Framework for Integrated Health and Care: Shared Care Records (Sep 2021)

NHS England

Personal data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique information about physiology or the health of that natural person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question.

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