MS-PINPOINT · Opt out
Opt out of the MS-PINPOINT study
Ask the MS-PINPOINT study not to use your hospital records or MRI scans. Opting out needs no reason and will not affect the NHS care you receive.
Privacy and Data Protection
Your privacy is very important to us. In this study, we will look at health information from many patients in different hospitals. However, we will make sure that no one can tell who you are from the information we use, that includes the members of the research team.
We will keep your personal details, like your name and address, separate from the rest of your health information, and destroy it. We will replace these details with a code in an irrevocable manner. This process is called "anonymising" the data: what we study is fully anonymised, and it is impossible for anyone — including the research team — to link it back to an individual patient.
When we talk about the results of our study, we won't share information about individual patients. We will only share general findings that can't be linked to any specific person.
We also apply the NHS National Data Opt-Out. If you have already opted out through your GP practice or nhs.uk, your records are excluded before any data reaches this study — you do not need to fill in this form as well.
All other patients in the hospitals that are part of this study will have their information included by default. But if you don't want your information to be part of the study, that's okay. We respect your choice. If you want to opt out, click the link below: