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Family Practice Advance Access originally published online on December 1, 2007
Family Practice 2007 24(6):527-528; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmm072
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Editorial

Research ethics approval: comprehensive mechanisms are essential but not available

Heather Drapera and Sue Wilsonb

a Centre for Biomedical Ethics
b Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Primary Care Clinical Sciences Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Correspondence to Heather Draper; Email: h.j.a.draper@bham.ac.uk

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It is now widely accepted that any research involving humans or identifiable human information should be undertaken according to a pre-specified protocol that is submitted for consideration, comment, guidance, and where appropriate, approval by a properly constituted ethical review committee.1 Similarly, recent legislation such as the Data Protection Act, Human Tissue Act and Mental Capacity Act emphasize the importance of ethical scrutiny of research on human participants, however, in the UK there is no single, national ethics committee that undertakes research appraisal.2

The process of ethical review for research involving National Health Service (NHS) patients or staff was formalized only fairly recently (in the history of research in UK). The NHS Research Ethics Service is administered by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES, previously COREC), but is only responsible for providing ethical review for research occurring . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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