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Accepted: 4 October 2024

First Online: 5 November 2024

Declarations

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: This work was commissioned and funded by the SBRI Healthcare programme. SBRI Healthcare is an Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) initiative, championed by the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). The views expressed in the publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the SBRI Healthcare programme or its stakeholders.

: A.M. is a partner of QC Medica (); N.A. and R.H. are employed by QC Medica; C.R. provided clinical and health economic support as a freelancer; E.S.J. is a co-founder and the Chief Medical Officer of Concentric Health (); Other than the involvement of E.S.J, there was no direct involvement by Concentric Health, a company that sells digital consent systems, in the design, analysis or interpretation of the study. This work was commissioned and funded by the SBRI Healthcare programme to evaluate the impact of use of the Concentric digital consent system within the NHS and consider the implications and cost of changes to current practices. Data collection was performed independently of employees of Concentric Health and data analysis performed by QC Medica, independent of Concentric Health. The other authors declare no other conflicts of interest.

: Ethics approval was not deemed necessary because the study involved anonymous data from patient records only. The study did not involve human experiments or use of human tissue. Using the United Kingdom nationally available HRA research toolkit (), this study was not deemed to require IRAS ethics. This quality improvement study underwent institutional approval by the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust: Audit QIP ID 5309. Stakeholders participated voluntarily in this study. The methods applied in this study were carried out in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR) and National Health Service (NHS) Health Research Authority’s (HRA’s) operational guidance on the implementation of GDPR for health and social care research.

: Additional data are available on request to the corresponding author.

: Not applicable.

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: Model is available on request to the corresponding author.

: M.I.H., C.L., A.C., S.T., C.R. and E.S.J. carried out data collection, parameter estimation, supporting model curation; R.H., A.M. and N.A. created the model and implemented the parameter estimations into the model; R.H., M.I.H., A.M., N.A., C.L., A.C., S.T., C.R. and E.S.J. wrote and reviewed the manuscript.