Bullock, Nicholas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5435-7898
Simpkin, Andrew
Fowler, Sarah
Varma, Murali
Kynaston, Howard
Narahari, Krishna
Article History
Received: 21 June 2019
Accepted: 24 September 2019
First Online: 17 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The BAUS Radical Prostatectomy Registry has Section 251 approval (Section 251 of the NHS Act 2006) from the Confidentiality Advisory Group of the NHS Health Service Research Authority which permits the collection of NHS patient identifiable information for essential NHS activities and research, without the specific consent of patients. The registry is managed centrally by the BAUS Data and Audit Manager. Applications for use of anonymised patient data are submitted to the BAUS Data and Audit Manager and are subsequently reviewed by the BAUS Section of Oncology Executive Committee. If approved, anonymised data is then released to the applicant for the purposes defined in the application. Approval for the current study was granted by the BAUS Section of Oncology Executive Committee on 7 March 2018.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.