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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'.
Minutes of the 2023 meetings of the National Data Guardian (NDG) Panel.
The NDG reflects on the relationship between the NHS and social care and the importance of using data. She also outlines the value of Caldicott Guardians to organisations handling social care data.
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.
Transparency information about the oversight group for a public dialogue project exploring when public benefit justifies the use of health and care data.
The National Data Guardian shares the findings from her recent poll and calls for a debate about the relationships between the NHS and those innovating with patient data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
The National Data Guardian looks at how consensus might be developed to support data sharing for NHS clinical genetics and genomics services
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