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Preferred name

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Minimum Operational Data Set

Digitising Social Care

The name by which a person wishes to be addressed. The preferred name volunteered by the person or a preferred name given by the Personal Deomographic Service (PDS) that the person has asked to be called by. This may be different from their legal name.

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