Shaaban, Abeer M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5784-8705
Hilton, Bridget
Clements, Karen
Pinder, Sarah E. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4167-8910
Thompson, Alastair M.
Article History
Received: 29 December 2020
Revised: 8 January 2021
Accepted: 13 January 2021
First Online: 16 February 2021
Change Date: 20 August 2021
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-021-01520-9
Ethical approval and consent to participate
: Ethics Committee approval was not required for this study, originally conducted under the NHS Cancer Screening Programme’s application to the Patient Information Advisory Group (PIAG). More recently, the study has been permitted to process personally identifiable data without consent under Regulation 5 of Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 1438: The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (15/CAG/0207) in line with the following clause: “quality assuring screening services to ensure they are effective and safe, and that any incidents are investigated and managed appropriately”. This statutory exemption to common law permits Public Health England to process personally identifiable data for activities it is ‘responsible and accountable to the Secretary of State for Health for’, as part of its core remit for population screening.
: Not applicable.
: Data is held by Public Health England. Access to the Sloane Project data from external parties is governed by consultation with the Sloane Project Steering Group and application to Public Health England’s breast screening research advisory committee (RAC) and Public Health England’s office for data release (ODR). Data will subsequently only be released by Public Health England to researchers under approval and in an anonymised or depersonalised format, with a data sharing contract in place.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The Sloane Project was supported by Public Health England and, in part, by Cancer Research UK and by KWF Kankerbestrijding (ref. C38317/A24043).