How Patient Data is Kept Safe in Clinical Trials (7:01)

HDR UK

Centre for Trials Research - Cardiff University

22 July 2026

Last Updated

22 July 2026

Find out how patient data is kept safe in clinical trials, and what the "Five Safes" framework (Safe People, Projects, Data, Settings, and Outputs) means in practice. Learn the questions you can ask the research team about who has access to data, how it is stored, and how patient privacy is protected throughout the trial.

Instructor

Fiona Lugg-Widger

Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director for Data

Fiona is a senior research fellow and deputy director for data at the Centre for Trials Research. Fiona has expertise in the des...

Organisations

HDR UK

Centre for Trials Research - Cardiff University

The Centre for Trials Research at Cardiff University is the largest group of academic clinical trials staff in Wales.