Terms & Conditions

RTS Terms and Conditions of Use

The data held in this service are managed by the Data Management team at the Research Delivery Network, however the Department of Health and Social Care is the Data Controller. Data may only be copied, downloaded or shared with 3rd Parties in line with these Terms and Conditions of Use.  

Specific queries should be sent to the Data Management email address. 

The purpose of RTS is to promote data standardisation and interoperability across NIHR and its partner organisations but it may be accessed across the wider clinical research community, subject to approval.

Currently all data are shared without any licensing restrictions but should it be necessary in future access to some RTS content may be restricted.

The Reference Data and Terminology Service can be accessed by individual users via its user interface or through system-to-system integration using its APIs. 

By using this service you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you are undertaking to ensure the protection and security of all data accessed by you in the NIHR Reference Data & Terminology Service and to process this data in accordance with the following conditions:

Acceptable Use: What you are agreeing to do:

You are expected to adhere to standard information security good practice,

for example:

• not sharing accounts

• choosing secure passwords

• not sharing data with people who are not authorised to see it

This list is not exhaustive.

You are expected to:

• adhere to any relevant data sharing agreements

• adhere to any prevailing legislation

• keep any data you may have downloaded up to date and complete whilst in use

If your organisation is a regular consumer of RTS data it is your responsibility to ensure that the data you hold locally which came from RTS are kept up to date. (ODS data are updated daily, Sponsor/Funder information is updated weekly or more often than that). The APIs have been designed to facilitate this.

You accept that:

• RDNCC does not own all the data in RTS and cannot therefore make changes to some datasets. For example ODS data are owned by NHS Digital so corrections/updates must be requested either from the ODS Helpdesk or via the OC1 Contacts in NHS Trusts.

• Requests for new, non-ODS, organisations to be added to RTS may only come from NIHR or HRA colleagues. For more information see the Data Requests page.

• RTS support is only available during normal office hours

Contact the RTS Team