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Dame Fiona Caldicott obituary

Last modified on Sun 21 Mar 2021 16.57 EDT The invasion of information technology into healthcare brought the ancient principle of confidentiality between doctor and patient into conflict with opportunities to store and share data collectively. Fiona Caldicott, who has died aged 80, devoted the last 25 years of her life to resolving this issue within the UK National Health Service. She chaired three government reviews of information governance and in 2014 became the first National Data Guardian, appointed to “advise and challenge the health and care system to help ensure that citizens’ confidential information is safeguarded securely and used properly”. Caldicott was a private person, rarely in the public eye: as one writer put it, “she knew outcomes were more important than headlines”. Trained as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she would ask searching questions, listen intently to the answers, and respond with thoughtfulness and insight. In 1996, having completed he

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