Our Research Governance team support and advise researchers to meet the requirements of the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research as well as other relevant standards, policies and legislation.
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's 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. Your rights to access, change or move your information are limited, as we need to manage your information in specific ways in order for the research to be reliable and accurate.
If you withdraw from the study, we'll 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.
If you have a complaint about how we've handled your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer who will investigate this for you. If you're not satisfied with our response or believe we're processing your personal data in a way that is not lawful you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Contact our Data Protection Team: spft.
Please download our Research Protocol Template here
- Research approvals guide - updated version to be added here soon
- The Pre-Sponsorship Review Panel at the University of Sussex (UoS) and Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) reviews research applications before formal sponsorship is granted by the university or partner. This panel ensures research quality, ethical considerations, and governance compliance, recommending approval to the sponsor (UoS/BSMS/Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust/UHSussex) for studies involving human participants or sensitive data, to ensure high-quality, ethically sound research. For more information and panel dates click here
- Sussex Clinical Records Interactive Search (CRIS)
