Consent and Data Collection
You will be asked to provide verbal consent prior to providing a swab but, apart from that, you don’t need to do anything else. You will not need to provide written consent to be involved in this trial and your medical information will be collected from the hospital databases once you have given birth.
The trial will use information routinely collected by the NHS about your labour and birth and your baby, which will all be linked together using your and your baby’s NHS/CHI numbers in a database kept by the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit (NCTU), of the University of Nottingham.
This routine information will be anonymised once your information and your baby’s (or babies') information has been linked and it will be deleted once the study has finished.