In accordance with The Health Service (Care of Patient Information) Regulations and Section 251 of the NHS Act, it may be appropriate, where no other option is available, to access patient information for research purposes without individual consent.
Permission to access records is granted by the office of the Secretary of State for Health, on the advice of the Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG). CAG approval must be applied for via IRAS - by selecting Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) under question 4, answering question 4a as appropriate and answering Yes to question 11.
Please also notify Research Governance by completing a Research Registration Checklist (Microsoft Forms), if you have not already done so.
