NIHR IBD BioResource: Consent records

The NIHR IBD Bioresource comprises ~34k participants with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The NIHR IBD BioResource records consent details – form, version and date - from participants at many points of recontact. In addition, participants are empowered to contact the study directly to express their preferences. The primary use of consent records is as an exclusion criterion when participants are invited to take part in experimental medicine studies. However, consent is also factored in to the release of samples and data for sample-only and data-only studies. One implication, is that data releases have freezes that capture a snapshot of the current consent statuses. How the withdrawal process is managed, and implications for whether data can be removed rapidly from already published datasets is described in our Participant Privacy Notice, online at https://bioresource.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/governance-and-ethics/privacy-notice/