Junghans, Cornelia
Antonacci, Grazia
Williams, Alison
Harris, Matthew
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR North West London Applied Research Collaborative
Article History
Received: 18 April 2023
Accepted: 28 September 2023
First Online: 12 October 2023
Declarations
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: The study was reviewed by the NHS Health Research Authority and deemed to be a service evaluation and not research, according to the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research (2017) v3.3 Sect. 3.1, and the Governance Arrangements for Research Ethics Committees (2020) v2.1 Sect. 2.3 and therefore not requiring ethical review from an institutional review board. The study analysed the uptake of preventative services using routinely collected primary care data to evaluate a community-level service. There were no experiments on human subjects or use of human tissue. As legal custodians of the primary care data, written consent to conduct the analysis of the primary care data was provided by the GP practice (Pimlico Health at the Marvern). Researchers were provided with honorary contracts to work as S1 data analysts based at the GP practice. A data sharing agreement and Privacy Impact Assessment was obtained between the GP practice, Westminster City Council and Imperial College London. In accordance with national guidelines and regulations regarding ethics in scientific research, the data we used for this study was carefully de-identified and anonymised and analysed only in the aggregate. Public partners were not involved in the design or conduct of this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.