Policy responses and statements

Name of organisation:

National Clinical Dataset Development Programme (NCDDP)

Name of policy document:

National Clinical Data Standards - Generic Consent Standards

Deadline for response:

17 August 2007

Background: This consultation document comprises proposed new Generic Consent Data Standards. In 2004, NCDDP commenced developing Generic Data Standards, beginning with the more obvious commonly required standards such as patient demographics (most of which were developed collaboratively with the Scottish Executive Data Standards Branch) and basic health measurements.

The focus in these generic consent standards is to systematically capture generic, one size fits all, consent information, in circumstances where consent is explicitly required (verbal or written) or may be implied. It is intended that this will ensure consistency in the common aspects of specialised national consent standards when these are developed.

The standards have been drafted, as far as possible, to be consistent with current legislation, the requirements of regulatory bodies and documents produced by other key organisations.

Types of consent -

The standards address 3 broad types of consent:

1 Activities that are part of direct patient care, procedures which are intended to affect outcomes for the patient.
2 Activities that are not part of direct patient care, procedures which are not intended to affect outcomes for the patient.
3 Consent to sharing of patient information for purposes including patient care, health service management and to contribute to health knowledge.

Download this consultation response as a .pdf

Copies of this response are available from:

Lesley Lockhart,
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.

Tel: 0131 225 7324 ext 608
Fax: 0131 220 3939

[17 August 2007]