Research Governance Approval – Secondary Care
From Lindsay: This was quite a lengthy process and took a little while to complete. As Gemma has already said organisation is key, when I knew that the study had been granted the funding...
Category: Research Ethics and Governance
Research Governance Approval – Primary Care
In our case, the person who coordinated our research governance approval in primary care sat within the North of England Commissioning Support Unit but this has now been transferred as part of the new...
University of Sunderland Ethics
The University of Sunderland considers a broad range of investigations research and has committees similar to that of the NHS for the consideration of research. Prior to applying for University approval, we had to...
NHS Ethics
Now you would think that the NHS Ethics process might have been the most difficult of these approvals. But actually there is so much support for this process and information available that this wasn’t...
Integrated Research and Application System (IRAS)
IRAS is the online system which facilitates applications for: Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee (ARSAC) Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (GTAC) Health Research Authority (HRA) for projects seeking HRA Approval...
Do I need governance approvals?
Research governance approvals are the organisational approval that you need to conduct research within an organisation. They are a very practical evaluation of your research to make sure that it can be delivered by...
Do I need ethical approval?
Let’s start with ethics. NHS Ethics sounds obvious right? Wrong. First of all. What is ‘NHS’? The lines between NHS, social care and contracted services are not always clear. I’ll also point out that...
Research Ethics and Research Governance
Although when we started planning the EMULSION study I knew that we would need ethics and governance approvals, I’ll be honest, I didn’t really know what that meant in practice. The navigation of these...