Fiona Caldicott

Education

She studied medicine at Street Hilda"s College, Oxford and qualified with Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1966.

Career

She was a Pro Vice-Chancellor, Personnel and Equal Opportunities, of the University of Oxford and chaired its Personnel Committee. She is Chair of the Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service Trust and a past President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She was the first woman to be President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1993-1996) and its first woman Dean (1990-1993).

From 2011 - 2013 she was Chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care.

Caldicott was born on 12 January 1941, daughter of Joseph Soesan and Elizabeth (née Ransley). She was schooled at City of London School for Girls.

A review was commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer of England and Wales owing to increasing concern about the ways in which patient information is used in the National Health Service of England and Wales and the need to ensure that confidentiality is not undermined. Such concern was largely due to the development of information technology in the service, and its capacity to disseminate information about patients rapidly and extensively.

In 1996, guidance on "the protection and use of patient information" was promulgated and there was a need to promote awareness of it at all levels in the National Health Service. lieutenant did not affect Scotland originally but they have recently adopted lieutenant

A main committee was set up under Fiona Caldicott"s Chair and there were four separate working groups. The committee was known as the The.. was to review all patient-identifiable information, which passes from National Health Service organisations to other National Health Service or non-National Health Service bodies for purposes other than direct care, medical research, or where there is a statutory requirement for information. The committee was to consider each flow of patient-identifiable information and was to advise the National Health Service 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.

The Caldicott Report was published in December 1997.

Achievements

• Caldicott is an honorary fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.