Each clinic can now track its own consent rate for Register data research and compare it to the national average, using a performance data measure added this month to your Dashboard on the Clinic Portal.
You can see the overall proportion of patients at your clinic who gave consent to their data being used in research. The data covers each quarter of the previous three years.
Identifying information is a valuable resource for researchers and can be used to carry out medical and social research in the interests of improving patient care. Without it, some important research simply couldn’t happen, such as when researchers want to link datasets to understand the effects of treatment over time. You can see examples of research which used our data here. We encourage all clinics to ensure that consent to data research is properly discussed with patients.
The tool is currently available in beta, with static data. The full version with automatically updating data will be available next year. If you have any questions or feedback please contact Anna.Coundley@hfea.gov.uk
Publication date: 9 April 2026