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Table 2.

Respondents’ opinions on health data usage and sharing for research.

Question			Number of respondents		Responses
1. How much would you say you know about how the following organizations use health data for research purposes?					Never heard of (%)		Heard of, know nothing about (%)		Just a little (%)		A fair amount (%)		A great deal (%)
	a. NHS^a	407		14.3		13.3		30.7		26.8		15
	b. Commercial organizations	405		25.7		22.7		27.9		15.1		8.6
	c. University researchers	405		18.5		21.7		32.1		19.5		8.1
2. How likely would you be to allow your anonymized health information to be used for the purposes of medical research by the following organizations?					Very unlikely (%)		Fairly unlikely (%)		Not sure (%)		Fairly likely (%)		Very likely (%)
	a. NHS	408		4.4		3.9		13.7		30.4		47.5
	b. Commercial organizations	405		22.0		17.5		34.1		14.1		12.3
	c. University researchers	405		6.7		6.4		21.2		31.4		34.3
					Very unlikely (%)		Fairly unlikely (%)		Not sure (%)		Fairly likely (%)		Very likely (%)
3. To what extent would you support ICL^b creating a large, anonymized set of data of routinely collected ICHNT^c health care data for AI^d research purposes?			408		1.5		2.5		12.3		48.5		35.3
					Very unlikely (%)		Fairly unlikely (%)		Not sure (%)		Fairly likely (%)		Very likely (%)
4. To what extent would you support the transfer of your anonymized health data to ICL if there was a very small chance of it being reidentified after transfer?			407		13.0		13.5		17.2		36.3		19.9
					Strongly disagree (%)		Disagree (%)		Neither agree nor disagreed (%)		Agree (%)		Strongly agree (%)
5. Currently, researchers are legally allowed to access anonymized health data for research without the need for patient consent. To what extent do you agree with this?			407		9.3		14.7		20.1		39.1		16.7

^aNHS: National Health Service.

^bICL: Imperial College London

^cICHNT: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

^dAI: artificial intelligence.