Public Notices

Research where patient consent is not required – Opportunity to Opt Out

Notices for studies approved by the Confidentiality Advisory Group

The Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) is an independent body which provides expert advice on the use of confidential patient information. The key purpose of CAG is to protect and promote the interests of patients and the public, while at the same time facilitating use of confidential patient information for the purposes beyond direct patient care, for example for research.

CAG has supported (approved) the use of confidential patient information for the below research in the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals. If you do not want your information to be used for this research you have the Opportunity to Opt out – the details about how to do this are provided in each notice below:

• Public Notice – Outcomes of Drug Coated Balloon Angioplasty, A UK Real Life Experience from 2009 to 2015 (DCBNORWICH).
• Public Notice – Does living by the sea impact palliative and end-of-life care outcomes?
• Public Notice – Research Project regarding asthma presentations at A+E

Other Notices

• Public Notice – Prediction of Gestational Diabetes by measuring serum pregnancy associated protein-A (PAPP-A) and HbA1c in the first trimester of pregnancy.