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doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7460.281

BMJ 2004;329:281-282 (31 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7460.281

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Tony Soteriou, director of research¹

¹ Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Bath BA1 3QE

Correspondence to: Health Training and Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY tony.soteriou@uwe.ac.uk

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English NHS trusts are obliged to implement research governancefor all NHS health and social care research.¹ The NHS trustthat I work for, which funded the research highlighted by Jonesand Bamford,² sees research as integral to providing high qualityhealth and social care services, and research governance isparamount to our research strategy.

Research involving NHS patients or service users should be reviewedby the NHS research ethics committee and be of appropriate scientificquality. If a research protocol changes, then it needs to bereassessed for the new methods and research ethics. Researchnot meeting these ethical and quality standards can representa potential risk to patients, researchers, and wider NHS research,as shown by the Alder Hey and other inquiries.^3-5 Trusts thereforeneed to implement training for researchers, together with governanceand guidelines on good practice. Researchers and cliniciansengaged in research also have a professional . . . [Full text of this article]

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