112 The HRA's policy on research ethics committees
Care Act 2014 (2014 c 23) | Legislation

Research ethics committees

112  The HRA's policy on research ethics committees

(1)     The HRA must ensure that research ethics committees it recognises or establishes under this Chapter provide an efficient and effective means of assessing the ethics of health and social care research.

(2)     A research ethics committee is a group of persons which assesses the ethics of research involving individuals; and the ways in which health or social care research might involve individuals include, for example—

(a)     by obtaining information from them;

(b)     by obtaining bodily tissue or fluid from them;

(c)     by using information, tissue

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