Ethical approval

Ethical approval number: 19/SW/1059

What is available?

• Volunteers: Identifiable by phenotype and genotype (to request a search, please complete our query form)
• Samples: Banked DNA/ urine/ serum/ plasma and prospectively collected RNA/ whole blood from Exeter 10,000 volunteers
• Data: Data from Exeter 10,000 and allied studies, and consent to access medical records
• Samples and data from other ethically approved studies that have been transferred to the Peninsula Research Bank (PRB) for long term management

How do I access volunteers, samples and/or data?

In the first instance please contact Dr Kim Gooding, PPI Lead for the CRF, to discuss your project needs.  You may then be invited to submit a formal request for access to volunteers, samples and/or data to the PRB Steering Committee.  Formal requests are considered each month at the PRB Steering Committee meeting, with the close involvement and active participation of the lay members of our Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group.

Lay summary

If you are requesting access to volunteers, please note that the lay summary provided in your application will form the basis of our initial approach letter sent out to potential volunteers registered on the PRB database. We aim for information in our initial letter to be succinct, informative, easy to read and understandable to the average lay person. If your application is for access to samples/data, approval by the Steering Committee may be dependent on the content of your lay summary. Some guidance from our lay panel is provided here.

NHS ethics

Studies wanting to access Exeter 10,000 volunteers via the PRB will need appropriate ethical and governance approval.

Please note that the PRB Steering Committee likes to be involved in projects as early as possible, so it can assist with protocol design and the oversight of patient-facing documents such as participant information sheets (PISs), before they go to ethics.