National Data Guardian 6 July 2016
- This review by the National Data Guardian for Health and Care (NDG), Dame Fiona Caldicott, makes recommendations aimed at strengthening the safeguards for keeping health and care information secure and ensuring the public can make informed choices about how their data is used.
- The NDG proposes new data security standards for the NHS and social care, a method for testing compliance against the standards, and a new opt-out to make clear how people’s health
and care information will be used and in what circumstances they can opt out. - There are a number of videos of Dame Fiona Caldicott speaking about her role and how health and care information can be used to improve health and care services and research new treatments and cures.
- Following publication of this report NHS England has announced that it will close the Care.data programme.
