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Scottish Medical Imaging (SMI) access conditions (PBPP approval, Scottish National Safe Haven)

No published license. A project is approved by the NHS Scotland Public Benefit and Privacy Panel, then works on a project-specific extract inside the Scottish National Safe Haven, paid on a cost recovery basis. AI development is allowed, the data cannot be exported and outputs pass disclosure control. Commercial AI products may have to be offered to NHS Scotland at a discount.

Original license text Edit Purpose: Approved project only Version read: Public Health Scotland SMI pages last updated 2025-08-19, and the access conditions described in Baxter et al., Radiology: Artificial Intelligence 6(1):e220266 (2024), both read 2026-10-09 Checked 2026-10-09
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What you can do

  • Conditional
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Conditional

What you can share

  • No
  • Conditional
  • No

What you must do

  • Not stated
  • Share alike Not stated
  • Not stated
  • Not stated
  • Manuscript review Not stated
  • Release code Not stated
  • Return results Not stated
  • Delete after use Not stated

Limits

  • Yes
  • Conditional

Datasets under this license

  • Scottish Medical Imaging (SMI) Archive

    Population-scale copy of the Scottish national PACS: 57.3 million radiology studies (2010 to August 2018) of about 4.27 million patients, linkable to NHS Scotland health records. Approved projects analyse CT, MRI, PET and report extracts inside the Scottish National Safe Haven.