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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 National Data Guardian provides guidance to the UK Government and the health and adult social care system on data confidentiality, security and patient data choice. Its role is to advise and challenge the health and social care system to help ensure that citizens’ confidential information is safeguarded securely and used properly to ...
Some areas of NIGB functions (d) and (e) above had been delegated to the NIGB's Ethics and Confidentiality Committee (ECC). These functions primarily related to applications to use identifiable patient information without consent, in specific circumstances within the bounds of section 251 of the NHS Act 2006.
The committee was to consider each flow of patient-identifiable information and was to advise the NHS Executive whether patient identification was justified by the purpose and whether action to minimise risks of breach of confidentiality was desirable—for example, reduction, elimination, or separate storage of items of information.
In November 2013 NHS England launched a clinical digital maturity index to measure the digital maturity of NHS providers [4] but 40% of NHS managers surveyed by the Health Service Journal did not know their ranking, and the same proportion said improving their ranking was of low or very low priority. [5] in 2022 the 211 trusts progress was ...
Medical privacy, or health privacy, is the practice of maintaining the security and confidentiality of patient records. It involves both the conversational discretion of health care providers and the security of medical records.
The Patient Information Advisory Group (PIAG) was established in the United Kingdom under section 61 [1] of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 [2] and the Patient Information Advisory Group (Establishment) Regulations 2001 [3] to provide advice on issues of national significance involving the use of patient information and to oversee arrangements created under section 60 [4] of the Act.
care.data was a programme announced by the then Health and Social Care Information Centre in spring 2013. It aimed to extract data from GP surgeries into a central database through the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES).