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Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock pays tribute to Dame Fiona Caldicott, the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care.
This document provides a summary of activity during the financial year 2021 to 2022 in relation to work governed by this group.
Minutes of the 2023 meetings of the National Data Guardian (NDG) Panel.
Employment Tribunal decision.
List of available tests for meningococcal disease, what specimens to send and turnaround times.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has invited Dame Fiona Caldicott to be the first holder of the statutory office of National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care.
How to label, package and submit specimens to the laboratory for diagnostic testing.
How to manage individuals not included on an eye screening service register of people with diabetes.
Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD) is a government data-linking programme which aims to improve the connectedness of government data in England and Wales.
Statutory guidance on how NHS England should exercise the statutory functions that are intended to be transferred from NHS Digital.
The NIB Prospectus provides a review of progress made over the past 18 months.
Information for COVID-19 reinfection surveillance participants.
…She also outlines the value of Caldicott Guardians to organisations handling social care data.
This National Data Guardian guidance will improve public benefit evaluations by defining and standardising the concept of public benefit to enable clearer interpretation and understanding.
Guidance for health professionals to support people with a learning disability to access screening.
Guidance for breast screening services undertaking mammogram reading for another service.
Dame Fiona Caldicott to lead a review of the balance between protecting patient information and its sharing, to improve patient care
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The National Data Guardian will be inviting views on a new Caldicott Principle which emphasises the importance of considering and informing people’s expectations about data use
Dame Fiona Caldicott welcomes the government response to her Review of Data Security, Consent and Opt-Out…
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