IHKB Consent to Contact

Participation Recruitment Assistance

Consent-to-Contact

Participation Recruitment Assistance

“Consent-to-Contact allows patients across ICHT to opt in to being contacted for future research opportunities. This secure, ethically approved system helps researchers efficiently identify and invite eligible participants for ethically approved studies.”

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Overview

What is Consent-to-Contact?

Consent-to-Contact is a streamlined, ethically approved participant recruitment system that connects researchers with patients who have already agreed to hear about relevant research opportunities. By tapping into a pre-consented pool of participants via E-Consenting methods. Researchers can accelerate recruitment timelines, reduce pressure on clinical delivery teams, and reach more diverse and representative cohorts. With built-in data governance and patient engagement tools, this service removes common barriers to recruitment, making it easier to launch and scale high-quality studies across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Service Benefits

Benefits to Researchers

Provides secure access to a pre-consented pool of participants who have actively agreed to be contacted for research opportunities.
Accelerates trial recruitment timelines by removing the need to identify and screen participants from scratch.
Reduces dependence on clinic-based recruitment, freeing up clinical staff and enabling outreach beyond scheduled appointments.
Designed to be convenient and patient-friendly, contributing to high opt-in rates and improved participant engagement.
Enables targeted recruitment for hard-to-reach or niche patient groups, such as those with rare diseases, specific inclusion/exclusion criteria and demographic characteristics.

Benefits to Patients

Empowers patients to take an active role in research that could lead to better treatments and improved care for others facing similar health conditions.
Offers a straightforward and respectful way to support the NHS by helping shape the future of healthcare through participation in ethically approved studies.
Enables individuals to contribute to scientific understanding of their own condition, while maintaining full control over whether and how they choose to take part.
Designed with transparency and convenience in mind, ensuring patients are informed of relevant opportunities without added pressure or obligation.
Supports more inclusive research by helping studies reach a wider and more diverse patient population, including underrepresented or marginalised groups.