The Five Safes Framework
UHB is committed to promoting the protection of privacy and data security in line with the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Health Data Governance, and to use a proportionate approach to the governance of data access based on the ‘five safes’. UHB recognises the model’s key feature that the five dimensions ‘severally and jointly’ contribute to the safety (or risk) around data access.
Safe Data
The data for research projects is depersonalised to protect the privacy of patients
Safe Projects
Data will only be provided for projects with ethical approval an a clear public benefit by the data controller (UHB)
Safe People
Only trained researchers and specially accredited users are authorised to use the data safely
Safe Settings
Data is accessed within a secure environment that prevents unauthorised access and use
Safe Outputs
The outputs (Publication or findings) are screened and approved to ensure no data is re-identifiable
UHB Governance Information
UHB has received ethical approvals from the NHS Research Ethics Service (now a function of the Health Research Authority) for all the UHB Research Data Hubs.
To ensure correct oversight and governance of all UHB Health Data Hubs, each Data Hubs has oversight committees set up to monitor and review all data requests. To find out more information please review the individual UHB Health Data Research Hubs.
Privacy Notice
Under data protection law as a Trust we are legally required to provide information about how we use patient information. This needs to be done in a way that is concise, transparent, easy to understand, easily accessible, written in clear, plain language and free of charge. The Trust has a clear informative display of privacy notices both applicable to patients and staff accessible in a number of different formats.
Please see University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust website to see how your data is used within the UHB Health Research Data hubs here