Letter

Research bureaucracy in the United Kingdom: Good governance is needed

BMJ 2004; 329 doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7466.623-a (Published 9 September 2004)
Cite this as: BMJ 2004;329:623.2

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  1. Woody Caan, professor of public health (awc1@jess.che.apu.ac.uk)
  1. APU, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1SQ

    EDITOR—Transparent ethical scrutiny should come sufficiently early in the “life” of a research project that the design can incorporate the management of any risks to the public. A feeding frenzy for funding opportunities can make it difficult to organise such early scrutiny. The BMJ shows examples of a new problem: the paralysis of research by bureaucracy associated with ethics committees.1 Even …

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