Privacy Notice

Name of Research Project: Care Home Landscape Assessment: Digital and Data Readiness

Description of Project: This is a scoping study, designed to understand better the framework of ethical approval and data governance for care home research in Scotland, and in particular for the use of individual level data for Innovation Challenges, research and service evaluations.

Data Controller

Edinburgh Napier University

Purposes for collection/processing

This research project is essential a mapping exercise. We will undertake and report on the results of a National Baseline Assessment of the Digital Maturity of Adult Care Homes in Scotland designed to:

Assess the digital maturity of adult care homes in Scotland
Develop a baseline of adult care home digital capabilities
Explore digital readiness and facilitators/barriers to the development of digital capabilities

Legal basis

Art 6(1)(e), performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official duty vested in the Controller by Statutory Instrument No. 557 (S76) of 1993 as amended, e.g. for education and research purposes.

Whose information is being collected ?

Public officers/employees contact details for survey recruitment only.

What type/classes/fields of information are collected

Name, work contact details, organisation employed by and role.

Who is the information being collected from?

Publically available directories of care homes

Is personal data shared with internal and external to the University?

No external sharing. Within University by named research project team members who will have secure access to the dedicated project folder.

How long is the information kept for?

Any consent forms/emails will be retained for 6 years after the end of the project. We will implement Edinburgh Napier Data Management Policy which states requires research data to be retained after project completion if they substantiate research findings, are of potential longterm value or support a patent for at least 10 years. The policy also requires that funders and/or sponsors requirements are met. Long term storage is provided through the University data repository.

Will the data be used for any automated decision making?

Is information transferred to a third country? Outside the UK and not included in the adequate countries list?

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