# The National Child Measurement Programme Regulations 2008, Regulation 4: Additional purposes for which information may be processed


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3080/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-child-measurement-programme-regulations-2008/regulation-4
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