Consent for Pre-existing Material

• What type of recording do you want to use?
• Patient external recordings (that might identify the patient)
  • Is there informed written patient consent?
    • How to check
  • There is appropriate patient consent
  • There isn't appropriate patient consent
    • Here is some more information:
      • What to do next
        • End of topic
• Patient internal recordings (X-ray, internal organ, endoscopy, etc.)
  • End of topic
• Patient anonymous data (ECG, lab data, clinical history)
  • End of topic
• Other people (patients' relatives, hospital staff, volunteers, etc.)
  • There is appropriate patient consent
  • There isn't appropriate patient consent
    • What to do next

Using Pre-Existing Material - Patient consent

If the pre-existing material you want to use contains:

• Recordings of patients (internal or external)
• Patient data (e.g. patient notes, ECGs, lab data, etc.)
• Recordings of other people such as staff, relatives, teachers, students, or the public

You need to check whether the consent obtained at the time of making the recording is adequate for your intended purpose:

• Whether there needed to be written consent if the recordings were to used for learning and teaching
• If so, whether such consent exists
• If so, whether this consent covers permission for you to use these recordings in the way that you intend

Patient consent is distinct from the question of whether the copyright owner of the recording will be willing to licence the recording for your intended use.

The following series of pages will guide you through this process.