About the Project
We are inviting you to take part in a research project, encompassing two separate studies, iFIND1 and iFIND-2, which will use data collected during ultrasound scans and possibly also an MRI scan to image your baby. Before you decide it is important for you to understand why the research is being done and what it will involve. Please take time to read the following information carefully and discuss it with friends and relatives if you wish. Ask us if there is anything that is not clear or if you would like more information.
iFIND-1: Collection of data from your routine 20 week antenatal ultrasound scan
If you are happy for us to do so we will save the ultrasound data from your scan to use for research to help us improve ultrasound scanning in the future. If you agree to this, the scan itself will be performed exactly as usual but the ultrasound data from your scan will be saved and will be pseudo-anonymised. This means that anything to connect the data to you (name, data of birth etc.) will be removed and replaced by a Study Identification number.
Using your data for future research
As KCL (University) and GSTT (NHS organisation) we use personally-identifiable information to conduct research to improve health, care and services. As publicly-funded organisations, we have to ensure that it is in the public interest when we use personally-identifiable information from people who have agreed to take part in research. This means that when you agree to take part in a research study, we will use your data in the ways needed to conduct and analyse the research study. Your rights to access, change or move your information are limited, as we need to manage your information in specific ways in order for the research to be reliable and accurate. If you withdraw from the study, we will keep the information about you that we have already obtained. To safeguard your rights, we will use the minimum personally-identifiable information possible.
Health and care research should serve the public interest, which means that we have to demonstrate that our research serves the interests of society as a whole. We do this by following the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data in a way that is not lawful you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Our Data Protection Officer is Yinka Williams and you can contact them at DPO@gstt.nhs.uk.
When you agree to take part in a research study, the information about your health and care may be provided to researchers running other research studies in this organisation and in other organisations. These organisations may be universities, NHS organisations or companies involved in health and care research in this country or abroad. Your information will only be used by organisations and researchers to conduct research in accordance with the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
This information will not identify you and will not be combined with other information in a way that could identify you. The information will only be used for the purpose of health and care research, and cannot be used to contact you or to affect your care. It will not be used to make decisions about future services available to you, such as insurance.
Where there is a risk that you can be identified your data will only be used in research that has been independently reviewed by an ethics committee.
An Ultrasound image
iFIND-2: Further Imaging
If you are happy for us to do so,we will take some additional ultrasound images of your baby and use the data to teach our new imaging system the best way to capture high quality images. We would also like to collect as many images as we can to build a database of fetal anatomy which computer programmes can use to compare with new ultrasound images. In this way we hope to be able to automatically detect different fetal organs and diagnose whether or not they are developing as expected.
A 3D Ultrasound image (left) and an MR image (right)
Using your data for future research
As KCL (university)/ GSTT (NHS organisation) we use personally-identifiable information to conduct research to improve health, care and services. As publicly-funded organisations, we have to ensure that it is in the public interest when we use personally-identifiable information from people who have agreed to take part in research. This means that when you agree to take part in a research study, we will use your data in the ways needed to conduct and analyse the research study. Your rights to access, change or move your information are limited, as we need to manage your information in specific ways in order for the research to be reliable and accurate. If you withdraw from the study, we will keep the information about you that we have already obtained. To safeguard your rights, we will use the minimum personally-identifiable information possible.
Health and care research should serve the public interest, which means that we have to demonstrate that our research serves the interests of society as a whole. We do this by following the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data in a way that is not lawful you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Our Data Protection Officer is Yinka Williams and you can contact them at DPO@gstt.nhs.uk.
When you agree to take part in a research study, the information about your health and care may be provided to researchers running other research studies in this organisation and in other organisations. These organisations may be universities, NHS organisations or companies involved in health and care research in this country or abroad. Your information will only be used by organisations and researchers to conduct research in accordance with the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
This information will not identify you and will not be combined with other information in a way that could identify you. The information will only be used for the purpose of health and care research, and cannot be used to contact you or to affect your care. It will not be used to make decisions about future services available to you, such as insurance.
Where there is a risk that you can be identified your data will only be used in research that has been independently reviewed by an ethics committee.