IQVIA MRES (Medical Research Extraction Scheme)

The Clinical Research Network West Midlands is pleased to announce that we are working with IQVIA to support practices to sign up to the Medical Research Extraction Scheme.

About 

IQVIA specialises in clinical research, clinical trials and analytical solutions to healthcare and life sciences organisations. In the UK, they have collected and supported the research use of non-identified patient data for over 20 years. They have partnered with EMIS Health to offer your practice the opportunity to contribute non-identified data to the research and patient insights programme.

How to join

Joining is a one-time, straightforward process, after which non-identified data is regularly collected automatically from EMIS Web with no impact on day-to day activities.

Benefits for your practice

Your practice would benefit from a quarterly payment of six pence per patient (based on NHS list size).

Data

The data available for research will not include any identifying information on healthcare professionals or patients. IQVIA uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while providing insights that can help drive health policy changes leading to improved outcomes for patients. For more details, visit: https://www.iqvia.com/locations/uk-and-ireland/medical-research-data.

These insights include approved scientific research studies for many uses such as epidemiology, drug safety and risk management, public health research, drug utilisation studies, outcomes research and health economics research. You can access the complete IQVIA bibliography at http://www.rwebibliography.com/.

Approvals

The use of IQVIA™ Medical Research Data extracted from the GP software systems for the purpose of medical research and of supplying the data to external researchers for scientifically approved studies under Data Sharing Agreements has been approved by the NHS Health Research Authority (NHS Research Ethics Committee ref 18/LO/0441).

If you want to know more about the IQVIA data collection programme and take part in the journey to improve patient outcomes, please contact CRN MRES Lead, Saif Uddin, email: saif.uddin@nihr.ac.uk.