At present, researchers who require to access NHS Data need to apply to the NHS and satisfy a wide ranging set of security questions. This process currently is repeated each time data is required, from scratch. If we could set out the process to makeit easy to follow, and also supply any generic templates for us, then a lot of effort, elapsed time and risk could be eliminated.

The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine would like to provide some default, template text documentation around IT provision for our research community to use when applying for research data.  This is to proactively answer questions which we know we may be asked to produce policy documents around IT elements such as IT security, training, storage and backup for instance.  Research data could come from a number of providers but this approach is to help try to answer the commonly asked components.