This GP practice supports QResearch
QResearch is a national health research database run by Queen Mary University of London with GP practices. It helps improve healthcare and patient safety across the NHS.
What information is used?
- Diagnoses and long-term conditions
- Prescriptions and test results
Before your information is used
✅ Your personal details are removed
✅ Your data is made anonymous
✅ You cannot be identified from the information kept in QResearch
This is done securely through an NHS system.
❌ Free-text notes written by your GP (full sentences) are not taken.
❌ Your information is never used for marketing or insurance.
Your choice
✅ You can choose not to have your anonymised GP data used in QResearch.
✅ To opt out of QResearch specifically, speak to your GP practice.
✅ The National Data Opt-out and Type 1 opt-out will be respected.
Acknowledgements
With very many thanks to our patient advisors for their advice and feedback to help develop this infographic and information resource including the QResearch Advisory Board, Mr Antony Chuter, Ms Kausar Iqbal, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East Midlands, the Young People’s Advisory Group in Oxford and the patient group Use My Data
Version 6, 13.02.2026