outsourcing GP appointments to India: is this legal under DPA?

[Mary Hawking]

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=23
<http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=23&storycode=4128022&c=2>
&storycode=4128022&c=2

This is a story about NHS Shared Business Services (DH plus Steria) urging
GP Consortia to make massive savings by outsourcing back-office functions
and above all appointments to India.

Regardless of the practicalities - and I cannot see this being popular with
either GPs or patients - would this outsourcing of NHS data be legal under
DPA? Even if already being done?

 

Mary Hawking

 

 

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