
Wellcome Trust welcomes GPs backing for research guideline proposal - 29 Jun 2009
The Wellcome Trust has welcomed the backing it has received from GPs for its calls to draw up guidelines on the use of patient records in medical research
Both the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of General Practitioners have expressed support for the idea, which The Wellcome Trust believes would ensure that confidential data is safeguarded and secure.
Sir Mark Walport, director of the organisation, said the support of people with permanent jobs as doctors in the UK is "essential" towards maintaining public trust in how medical records are used for research purposes.
"The public strongly support medical research and researchers in turn must support the public by working to the highest standards," he commented.
Dr Vivienne Nathanson of the BMA added that GPs must protect patients if their records are to be used in research and make sure that any confidential data is safe and secure "at all times".
This comes shortly after John Elledge of The First Post noted that the idea of giving researchers access to private patient data has caused "uproar in the small-but-noisy patient privacy lobby".
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