Anonymise patient id by obscuring first 7 chars - #45
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This gives us some debugging capability without revealing a complete NHS number.
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Description
Anonymise PatientID (NHS Number) by obscuring the first 7 digits/chars eg.
*******321when logging/printing this information.This gives us some debugging capability without revealing a complete NHS number.
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https://nhsd-jira.digital.nhs.uk/browse/DTOSS-12432
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