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In her latest blog, Dr Nicola Byrne touches upon some of the latest developments related to Caldicott Guardians and the 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.
Reports of 2 events examining how health and care data may be shared to support individual care, and the importance of understanding patient expectations.
The National Data Guardian has published guidance under her statutory powers about the appointment, role and responsibilities of Caldicott Guardians, expanding the types of organisations expected to have one.
Dr Nicola Byrne's response to the Government's announcement that the collection of data from GP practices as part of the GPDPR programme will now only take place after key conditions have been met.
The National Data Guardian shares her views on the government's new health and care data strategy: Data Saves Lives: Reshaping Health and Social Care with Data.
The National Data Guardian has issued a response to the Department of Health and Social Care’s call for views on its draft data strategy: 'Data Saves Lives: Reshaping health and social care with data'.
The National Data Guardian (NDG) has published an annual report covering activities from April 2020 to March 2021.
This report looks back over the work of the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care during 2021-2022. It also describes her work priorities for 2022-2023.
Health and care information will be vital in our response to coronavirus. We must continue to use it well and inform the public to maintain and build trust.
A blog from National Data Guardian, Dr Nicola Byrne, covering her first few weeks in post and the General Practice Data for Planning and Research programme.
National Data Guardian, Dr Nicola Byrne, talks about the importance of listening well, prompted by a citizens' jury deliberation in which members of the public explored data sharing during the pandemic.
We asked a citizen's jury to tell us what uses of confidential patient information it's reasonable to expect. Today we publish the jury's findings and reflect on what they told us.
An update on the progress of the data security standards review and how NHS trusts can improve their data security.
Dr Alan Hassey provides an update on the work of the National Data Guardian's Panel on understanding people's expectations on data sharing.
We have published the findings from our public consultation on the work priorities for the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care. This includes our new priorities.
Request for correspondence between the National Data Guardian and Information Commissioner regarding data sharing by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Mark Taylor writes about the NDG principle of ‘no surprises’ in the context of genetic and genomic medicine.
How health and social care organisations are implementing recommendations about sharing information.
The National Data Guardian has issued the following statement in response to plans for NHS Digital to collect data from GP practices so that it can be used for health and social care purposes including policy, planning, comm…
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