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The Guidelines & Legislation section brings together compliance guidance, best practice resources and support materials to help you navigate legal, ethical and regulatory requirements. 

To access online training and competency tests, please visit the Online Training section.

Submit a Guidelines Query - If you have a question that is not answered in the BHBIA's guidance materials, you can submit it to our Ethics Advisor and receive a confidential response. Only available to full BHBIA members (you will need to be logged in to access the form. Submit a Guidelines Query

 

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BHBIA/ABPI guidance on reporting adverse events, product complaints and special reporting situations

The Guidance notes on collecting adverse events, product complaints and special reporting situations during market research are produced by the BHBIA in conjunction with the ABPI.

Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Healthcare Data Analytics

BHBIA guidelines are designed to help us all reduce risk, improve performance and make life a little simpler by drawing key information together in one place.

Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Healthcare Market Research - including Practical Examples

The BHBIA Legal and Ethical Guidelines include everything you need, in one place, to keep your market research project running smoothly from a legal and ethical point of view - saving you time and trouble.

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NEW - Using AI Ethically in Business Intelligence

This guidance focuses on the ethical issues specific to AI, rather than the broader legal, compliance, privacy and governance requirements that must be followed.

NEW - AI and Adverse Event Reporting

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support adverse event (AE), product complaint (PC) and special reporting situation (SRS) processes, but it does not change existing pharmacovigilance (PV) obligations, reporting requirements or accountability.

NEW - General Guidance on AI and Data Governance

Many AI tools retain information through conversation histories, workspaces, uploaded files and memory features. While experience gained from previous work is not itself a conflict of interest, confidential information from one client must never be disclosed or inappropriately used for another. Users should therefore understand and manage how AI tools store and access information.

Guidelines for Patient Research

A summary of the key sections of the BHBIA's Legal and Ethical Guidelines that pertain specifically to conducting market research with patients.

Consents for Market Research - what is required and when

Details the different consents that might be required during the course of a primary market research project and at what stage these consents must be secured, before or during fieldwork.

Sharing Personal Data – Quick Guide

This guide summarises the latest guidance and support available when sharing personal data between data controllers. 

Data Security including Breaches and International Transfers

What you need to do to keep personal data secure throughout its processing life

Risk and Privacy Impact Assessment

How to assess the risks inherent in your data processing.

New technologies: due diligence and online security in Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Analytics (DA)

The use of technology in the workplace to facilitate remote working has surged in recent years and so has its use in adjusting to the ‘new normal’ as it relates to business intelligence.

GDPR training resources from the ICO

New 2022 - The ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) have made available the training modules on GDPR that they provide for ICO staff as part of their internal training. This could be a useful resource when training your staff on GDPR. 

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