of patient information" was promulgated and there was a need to promote awareness of it at all levels in the NHS. It did not affect Scotland originally but they have recently adopted it. A main committee was set up under Caldicott's Chair and there were four separate working groups; the committee was known as the Caldicott Committee, responsible for reviewing all patient-identifiable information, which passes from NHS organisations to other NHS or non-NHS 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 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. The report was published in December 1997. Every NHS trust has a "Caldicott Guardian" to ensure that standards of patient confidentiality and the Caldicott principles are upheld. National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care Caldicott became the UK's first National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care in November 2014. In December 2018 the Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Act 2018 passed into law, and in April 2019 she was appointed the first statutory position holder by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, a position she held until her death in February 2021. Awards and honours Honorary Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford Honorary Fellow, St Hilda's College, Oxford, 1996 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 15 June 1996. Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, November 2018 Personal life In 1965, she married Robert Gordon Woodruff Caldicott, who ran his family's wine merchant business; they had two children. Caldicott died on 15 February 2021 in Warwick, aged 80. References External links BMJ information 1941 births 2021 deaths Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford British psychiatrists Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire British psychotherapists Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners Principals of Somerville College, Oxford Pro-Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford British women medical doctors Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists British women psychiatrists Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford People from Troon Place of death missing People educated at the City