Secondary use permissions

Secondary use permissions refer to those granted in law for organisations to process confidential patient information, without patient consent, for specific purposes. The RA holds permissions to collect, process and share confidential patient information without consent to support its audit and research functions. The specific permissions held by the RA are described below.

Purpose Supporting legislation Approving body Permissions
Audit s251 of NHS Act 2006 Health Research Authority: Confidentiality Advisory Group

To collect data on patients with chronic kidney disease II-V, acute kidney injury, or on renal replacement therapy for the purposes of conducting clinical audit.

Collected data can be linked with datasets held by NHS Blood & Transplant (transplant), NHS Digital (Hospital Episode Statistics, Civil Registrations), Public Health England (infections) and NHS Wales Informatics Service (Patient Episode Data Wales).

Research s251 of NHS Act 2006 Health Research Authority: Confidentiality Advisory Group To use the data collected for audit to create a research database to which researchers based in NHS or academic institutions can apply  to access for the purposes of conducting research which improves the care and outcomes of patients with kidney disease.

 

Guidelines

NICE accredited clinical practice guidelines 

Available here

25th Annual Report

Analyses about the care provided to patients at UK renal centres.

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2022 UKRR AKI Report

A report on the nationwide collection of AKI warning test scores. 

Read the report