The Caldicott Committee's Report on the Review of Patient-Identifiable Information, usually referred to as the Caldicott Report, was a review commissioned in 1997 by the Chief Medical Officer of England due to increasing worries concerning the use of patient information in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales and the need to avoid the undermining of confidentiality because of the development of information technology in the NHS, and its ability to propagate information concerning patients in a rapid and extensive way.
A committee was established under the chairmanship of Dame Fiona Caldicott, Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, and previously President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Its findings were published in December 1997.
The Caldicott Report[1] highlighted six key principles, and made 16 specific recommendations.
In 2012 Dame Fiona produced a follow-up report [2] which made 26 further recommendations including the addition of a seventh principle which is included in the list below.
In 2016 a further follow-up report was produced[3] following controversy over the care.data initiative from HSCIC.