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The Caldicott Committee's Report on the Review of Patient-Identifiable Information, usually referred to as the Caldicott Report, was a review commissioned in 1997 by the Chief Medical Officer of England due to increasing worries concerning the use of patient information in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales and the need to avoid the undermining of confidentiality because of ...
The report made several recommendations, one of which was the appointment of Caldicott guardians, members of staff with a responsibility to ensure that patient data are kept secure: Recommendation 3 : A senior person should be nominated in each NHS organisation, including the Department of Health and associated agencies, to act as a "guardian".
It is referred to as Caldicott 3, as it is her third formal report to Government on the protection and use of patient information. The first, her Report on the Review of Patient-identifiable Information is known as the Caldicott Report and was published in 1997. The second report [14] known as Caldicott 2 was published in 2013.
The Second Caldicott Report, chaired by Dame Fiona Caldicott, defined direct care as: A clinical, social or public health activity concerned with the prevention, investigation and treatment of illness and the alleviation of suffering of an identified individual. It includes supporting individuals’ ability to function and improve their ...
A main committee was set up under Caldicott's Chair and there were four separate working groups; the committee was known as the Caldicott Committee, responsible for reviewing all patient-identifiable information, which passes from NHS organisations to other NHS or non-NHS bodies for purposes other than direct care, medical research, or where ...
At the state level, privacy laws pertaining to the deceased vary significantly, but in general do not extend any clear rights of privacy beyond property rights. The relative lack of acknowledgment of post-mortem privacy rights has sparked controversy, as rapid technological advancements have resulted in increased amounts of personal information ...
A dead man's statute, also known as a dead man act or dead man's rule, is a statute designed to prevent perjury in a civil case by prohibiting a witness who is an interested party from testifying about communications or transactions with a deceased person (a "decedent") against the decedent unless there is a waiver.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) relied on the Principles and the Manual in its Study on customary international humanitarian law: a contribution to the understanding and respect for the rule of law in armed conflict (2005) and in its Guidelines for Investigating Deaths in Custody (2013).