Join the Health Research Authority pilot to approve programmes of research

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The Health Research Authority (HRA) pilot aims to see whether it is possible to streamline the approval process for sub-studies within a programme of research.

The pilot involves Research Ethics Committees reviewing the overall study application for ethics approval. If it gets ethics approval, any sub-studies connected to the main study won't need to go through the same process. The pilot will evaluate the feasibility of approving sub-studies in this way.

The hope is that this will provide a more proportionate process for providing ethics approval to studies that are part of the same programme of research and help save researchers time which means they can start their studies quicker.

Catherine Blewett, Senior Development Manager at HRA said:

"We know that institutions can feel frustrated at having to individually apply for ethics review each time they want to run a new study within a programme of research.

"We think that this approach will benefit ethics review by cutting back bureaucracy for programmes which have already received a favourable ethics opinion, leading to quicker set-up times for sub-studies."

Visit the HRA website for more information.