Appendix B: Summary of changes to document¶

The following changes have been made to the draft document that was used for the consultation between 30 Apr and 26 May 20.

Executive summary:¶

• Confirmation of statement regarding direction of travel on TREs

• Addition of section on concerns and risks

• Addition of additional example TREs, including those established during COVID-19

• Addition of areas for further work

Status of document¶

• Updated with consultation details

Overview¶

• Rewording of purpose to reflect changes in document and clarification on language

• Minor rewording to reflect need to mitigate risk of reduction in research productivity

Case for TREs¶

• Addition of key points from one London citizen summit

Requirements for a trusted research environment¶

• Minor rewording to improve structure

Safe people¶

• Addition of clarification regarding approved projects, non-standard backgrounds, ONS research accreditation service

• Addition of summary of consultation responses to safe people question

Safe projects¶

• Addition of point regarding innovation gateway data access management module development

• Addition of reference to Foundation of Fairness report

• Additional point regarding transparency

Safe setting¶

• Re-wording to extend bullet points related to minimum requirements of safe setting

Safe computing¶

• Addition of point regarding the public cloud being the future default

• Addition of summary of consultation responses to questions on safe setting

Safe data¶

• Rewarding to reflect specific feedback from consultation and improve clarity

Safe outputs¶

• Addition of summary of consultation responses to question on safe outputs

Safe return¶

• Addition of point regarding linkage and summary of consultation responses to question About safe return

Research requirements for a TRE and data federation¶

• Change of title to emphasise importance of research requirements

• Additional text to address concerns regarding reduction in Researcher productivity raised during consultation

• Summary of consultation responses to question regarding user centred functionality

• Additional text related to dataset federation and requirement for further work

Accreditation of TREs¶

• Minor rewording and addition of summary of consultation responses to questions related to TRE accreditation

Communications engagement and involvement¶

• Addition of summary of consultation responses to question regarding patient and public engagement

Next steps¶

• Addition of new section outlining the six work packages required take the work forward

Appendix A¶

• Move of consultation questions to appendix
• Deletion of Appendix related to other alliance workstreams as covered within main document body of document