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Regulation 4 Additional purposes for which information may be processed

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Information gathered in accordance with these Regulations may be further processed by or on behalf of a Primary Care Trust with a view to—

(a)

releasing it, together with advisory material relating to children’s weight, to a parent of the relevant child to whom it relates;

(b)

providing advice to a parent of the relevant child in relation to such information;

(c)

releasing the information in a form in which the child cannot be identified to a relevant health professional, or to a person who in the circumstances owes a duty of confidentiality which is equivalent to that which would arise if that person were a relevant health professional, for use in accordance with good practice for surveillance, research, monitoring or audit and the planning of health services.