What is the purpose of the National Volunteer Register?
The idea to create a National Volunteer Register (NVR) for the UK
was born in 2000. With the advent of budget airlines it rapidly
developed into an initiative to create a European network of
registers. This is in recognition of the fact that it is as easy to
participate in two or more trials in London and Paris as it would be
to participate in two trials in Leeds and Manchester.
The idea behind NVR is to not create a mammoth database but to
create a web of databases where users remain in control of their own
data. Only a small proportion of their databases have to be made
visible to other users and no commercially sensitive information has
to be shared or passed on to a third party.
A central database is available for those users who have no in
house database system (e.g. academic centres) and where the number
of volunteers they need to register would not warrant creating one.
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