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  • Data Access Resources
  • Using health and care data in data-driven technologies
  • Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information - ethical guidance - GMC (gmc-uk.org)
  • The Caldicott Principles - UKCGC
  • Protecting patient data - NHS Digital
  • Health Research Authority (hra.nhs.uk)
  • Research planning - HRA
  • Identifying your participants in research - HRA
  • Student research toolkit - HRA
  • Research Ethics Committee (REC) review - HRA
  • Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) - HRA
  • CAG pre-application checklist - HRA (PDF)
  • Data protection: The Data Protection Act - GOV.UK
  • Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website
  • Guide to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) - ICO
  • Data protection self assessment - ICO
  • ICO call for views: Anonymisation, pseudonymisation and privacy enhancing technologies guidance
  • Introduction to anonymisation - ICO (PDF)
  • Anonymisation: managing data risk code of practice - ICO (PDF)
  • 10 Misunderstandings Related to Anonymisation - EDPS (PDF)
  • The Role of Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation Under the EU Data Privacy Rules: Beyond the ‘All or Nothing’ Approach - SSRN (PDF)
  • Health Data Linkage for UK Public Interest Research: Key Obstacles and Solutions - NCBI (PDF)
  • Data anonymisation: legal, ethical, and strategic considerations - FORS (PDF)
  • Data Anonymisation & Risk Assessment - Process Map and Automation Efforts (lexjansen.com) (PDF)
  • A Systematic Review of Re-Identification Attacks on Health Data - PLOS ONE
  • NHS data sets
  • NHS England Transformation Directorate
  • Synthetic data in machine learning for medicine and healthcare (nature.com)
  • Synthesizing single-case studies: A Monte Carlo examination of a three-level meta-analytic model - SpringerLink
  • A guide to synthesising case studies (whatworkswellbeing.org) (PDF)
  • Synthetic datasets listed by the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway
  • Synthetic data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)