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Letter to integrated care board SIROs from the National Data Guardian and UK Caldicott Guardian Council

Dr Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian, and Dr Arjun Dhillon, chair of the UK Caldicott Guardian Council, issued this letter to all integrated care board senior information risk owners on 7 November 2022.

Applies to England

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Dr Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian, and Dr Arjun Dhillon, chair of the UK Caldicott Guardian Council, issued this letter to all integrated care board senior information risk owners on 7 November 2022.

Its purpose was to provide guidance to help them process confidential patient information (CPI) safely, to ensure that there are no confidentiality breaches.

The letter outlines four specific processing scenarios and provides advice on the scope of existing legal gateways for processing patient information in those four circumstances.

Published 23 November 2022