Introduction

As an NHS organisation we use personally-identifiable information to conduct research to improve health, care and services. As a publicly-funded organisation, we have to ensure that it is in the public interest when we use personally-identifiable information from people who have agreed to take part in research. This means that when you agree to take part in a research study, we will use your data in the ways needed to conduct and analyse the research study.

In order to manage your information in specific ways to enable research to be reliable and accurate your rights to access, change or move your information are limited. If you withdraw from the study, we will keep the information about you that we have already obtained. To safeguard your rights, we will use the minimum personally-identifiable information possible.

Health and care research should serve the public interest, which means that we have to demonstrate that our research serves the interests of society as a whole. We do this by following the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.

For further information please visit the Health Research Authority (HRA) website here

You have the right to object to your identifiable information being used or shared for medical research purposes. Please speak to the Data Protection Officer if you wish to object.

We are required by Articles in the General Data Protection Regulations to provide you with the information in the following 9 subsections.