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Duty of transparency

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Duty of transparency

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

NHS England
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The UK GDPR principle of accountability requires that organisations must be able to demonstrate compliance. Part of this involves transparency and the provision of information to subjects – previously referred to as fair processing.

A specific requirement of the UK GDPR is that organisations must include their lawful basis for processing information provided to patients, service users and staff.

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