Australia RACGP Standards for General Practices (5th edition) C3.6: Research: any research the practice conducts has ethics committee approval and indemnity proportionate to its risk, and identified patient information is passed to a third party for quality improvement or professional development only with the patient's consent

What does C3.6 require?

Research in a practice carries obligations that routine care does not. Before any research project starts the practice confirms it has approval from a human research ethics committee and that indemnity cover matches the level of risk to participants and the practice. Where a practice shares identifiable patient information with an outside party for a quality improvement or professional development purpose, such as a clinical audit run by an external body, it first obtains the patient's consent; de-identified data does not need it. A practice that does no research records that the Criterion does not apply.