Research bureaucracy in the United Kingdom: Good governance is needed

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7466.623-a

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Woody Caan, professor of public health (awc1@jess.che.apu.ac.uk)

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 …