Research & Education Groups/Faculties/Institutions achieving the Information Governance Toolkit

There are now a rapidly increasing number of research or University groups achieving IGT accreditation. Congratulations, as at early June 2014, to the following for achieving either version 10 (2012/13) or version 11 (2013/14) of the IGT:

Hosted Secondary Use Team/Project View

• Barts Cancer Centre (on behalf of Barts Clinical Trials Unit, Queen Mary, University of London)
• Cardiff University, Cochrane Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Early Years Research Programme
• Cardiff University, School of Medicine, Dept of Child Health, The All Wales Perinatal Survey
• Drug Safety Research Unit (Associate Department of the School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth)
• Imperial College London (Dr Foster Unit, Dept of Primary Care & Public Health, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine)
• Institute of Education - Centre for Longitudinal Studies
• Keele University, Primary Care Services, Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre
• King's College London - South London Stroke Register
• Lancaster University, Health and Medicine, Ecological Analysis of Patterns of Campylobacter Risk
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Cancer Survival Group
• Queen Mary, University of London, Wolfson Institute of Preventitive Medicine
• The Institute of Cancer Research
• Transport Research Laboratory
• Transport Safety Research Centre (Loughborough University)
• UCL - Division of Infection & Immunity - BioResource for Adult Infectious Diseases
• UCL - epiLab
• UCL - Geography
• UCL - ICH - National Study of HIV in Pregnancy & Childhood
• UCL - Institute of Cardiovascular Science - Southall & Brent Revisited Project
• UCL - Institute of Cardiovascular Science - British Regional Heart Study
• UCL - Mortality outcome in the London COPD cohort
• UCL - National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research
• UCL - SLMS - Aging with Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disability (ADSID) Research Database
• UCL - SLMS - Institute of Child Health - Decision making for children with high risk brain tumours
• UCL - SLMS - NPH2
• UCL - SLMS - SBFH
• UCL - SLMS - Whitehall II Study
• UCL - SLMS - Biomedical Research Centre - BioResource (BRIT project)
• UCL - SLMS - Dept of Immunology, Infection DNA Bank
• UCL - SLMS - Institute of Women’s Health
• UCL - SLMS - Prevention of Neural Tube Defects in Ethnic Communities: Quantitative Study
• UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (part of MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, jointly between Imperial & KCL)
• University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - Complete Kawasaki Disease National Survey
• University of Bristol 1496: Surveillance of Acute Pancreatitis in Children 0-14 years in UK and Ireland SCREC
• University of Bristol - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents & Children (ALSPAC)
• University of Bristol - Institute of Child Life & Health - South West Congenital Anomaly Register (SWCAR)
• University of Bristol - School of Social & Community Medicine - Cohorts
• University of Bristol - School of Social & Community Medicine - Comparison of Prostate Cancer & Screening CAP Study
• University of Bristol - School of Social & Community Medicine - EE133799
• University of Bristol - School of Social & Community Medicine - Environmental Factors in Early Life & Ischaemic Heart Disease - MR341
• University of Cambridge - School of Clinical Medicine
• University of Edinburgh - Scottish Mental Health Survey follow-up studies, Centre of Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology
• University of Leeds - Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU)
• University of Leeds - Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health & Therapeutics - Secure Electronic Environment for Data (SEED)
• University of Leicester - Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS)
• University of Manchester - National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide & Homicide
• University of Manchester - Offender Health Research Network, VoRAMSS Team
• University of Manchester - Scottish Air Pollution & Mortality Outcome
• University of Manchester - Manchester Self-Harm Project
• University of Oxford - Infections in Oxfordshire Research Database
• University of Oxford - National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
• University of Sheffield
• University of Sheffield - Bridging the age gap in breast cancer
• University of Warwick - Clinical Trials Unit (PARAMEDIC)
• University of Warwick - Epidemiology and Outcome from Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Secondary Use Organisation View

• MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit - University of Southampton
• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clininical Research Network (CRN) Coordinating Centre
• University of Birmingham
• University of Oxford - UK CRC Modernising Medical Microbiology Consortium

Commercial Third Party View

• Department of Health Sciences, University of York

The above list has been created by picking out the relevant groups from the IGT website now managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The requirements are available on the website as are the reports of those organisations who have completed the IGT.

Related pages:

1. The University of Keele and NPEU, University of Oxford presented their experiences of this at the IGT Workshop for research groups on 8th March 2013 at the University of Leeds. 
2. NHS-HE Information Governance Working Group
3. Information Governance and the NHS context