Sever, Serdar
Harrison, Alexander Stephen
Doherty, Patrick
Funding for this research was provided by:
British Heart Foundation (040/HI/19/20/NACR)
Article History
Received: 26 March 2022
Accepted: 17 August 2022
First Online: 28 September 2022
Declarations
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: The National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation is hosted by NHS Digital, National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation is allowed to use anonymised patient-level data and the agreements are annually assessed as a part of data governance approval between NHS Digital and National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation. These agreements and the anonymity of the data set meant that there was no need for separate ethical approval. Permission is granted for the National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation to use patients’ data by the NHS Digital and Health Research Authority’s Confidentiality Group under section 251 of the NHS Act 2006, which allows collecting identifiable patient data for NHS digital without needing individual consent. All methods were carried out following relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have no competing interests.