Published 10 December 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2920
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2920

Letters

Regulation’s threat to research

A regulator writes

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The National Research Ethics Service has several initiatives to address the problems raised by Stewart and colleagues.1

  • The integrated research application system streamlines applications for all health research. It is a single electronic portal linked to different regulatory or funding bodies where information is entered only once. By early next year applications to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will be possible through it
  • For 10 years we have funded training days in research ethics where reviewer and researcher study together (those who learn together may better work together)
  • We run and audit an email queries line to help researchers through the intricacies of regulation (queries@nres.npsa.nhs.uk)
  • We ran a pilot study in 2008 to assess the feasibility of an expedited review process for research with "no material ethical issues," and a live pilot project will start early next year in south London
  • We have worked with . . . [Full text of this article]

Hugh T Davies, research ethics adviser1

1 National Research Ethics Service, London W1T 5HD

hugh.davies@nres.npsa.nhs.uk


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