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Person identifier

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Data descriptor

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Person identifier

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Digitising Social Care Glossary, v0.0.3

Digitising Social Care
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Unique identifier for a person such as NHS Number or CHI Number

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Data descriptor

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LA person unique identifier

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CLD Guidance, release 1 (February 2023)

NHS England
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A Person Unique Identifier - a local authority Client ID - will be used to identify different event records for the same person, where the NHS number is missing.

Data type: Integer or alpha-numeric

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