Data Protection Webinar: Using patient data for research and innovation

BNA Event - 18th Jun 2025

18th June 2025, 12-1pm BST - Online

Outline:
This session will be an hour long, allowing time for questions, and will look at:

1. The data protection jigsaw
   1. An outline of the position under UK GDPR and of the principles that impact on the use of patient data for research purposes.
   2. An outline of other restrictions on the use of patient data for research:
      1. Confidentiality and s251;
      2. National Data Opt Out, NDG and Caldicott Guardians;
      3. Third party rights.
2. Implications of this jigsaw for research and innovation
   1. Access and governance – how to keep it appropriate;
   2. Specific UK GDPR issues
      1. The need for transparency and the restrictions on automated decision making
      2. Anonymisation – how much is enough?
3. Intellectual property rights
   1. Outline of the IP rights available to protect dataset;
   2. IP rights as a threat to innovation;
   3. IP rights as a means of protecting the investment in innovation.
       

Speaker:

Stephen Brett, Anderson Law LLP

Stephen qualified as a solicitor in 1997 and joined Anderson Law LLP in 2011 where he has been a Partner since 2019. 

Stephen works primarily with universities, research funders and charities (exclusively in the healthcare arena) and NHS bodies.  Stephen’s portfolio covers all elements of the commercialisation process and he advises on issues ranging from institutional IP policy and strategic issues to matters arising from the drafting and negotiation of funding terms, research collaborations, data protection questions and agreements, commercial licensing negotiations, strategic collaborations and wider intellectual property issues.  The data protection element of his work focusses on the use of patient data for research purposes and the commercialisation of datasets.

Before joining Anderson Law LLP, Stephen spent time working in private practice in the South West before moving to work in house for a university (Counsel to Oxford University Innovation Ltd from 2002 to 2007) and later for the NHS (Principal Research and IP Legal Advisor at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2012 to 2014 on a part time basis).  This mix of experience means that he is well placed to understand the pressures and to advise on the issues that frequently arise when commercializing data and other IP.

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