A chart showing the how the HRA works in partnership to make it easy to plan, support, manage and complete health and social care research in the UK.
Across the top of the chart are three categories of HRA activity with health and care research partners across the UK that show this: We provide and are improving our digital systems to help researchers follow an ideal path to do their research; We are standardising processes, using our assurances to reduce duplication and we reduce the burden, time, and cost to do research.
Underneath this is a series of boxes that show the stages of research: Plan and set up research at locations; Plan and design the research; Fund the research; Earn regulatory approval; Do the research and Share research findings. All of these stages other than ‘Fund the research’ are surrounded by a green box that shows the scope of the HRA’s digital services.
Underneath each of these steps (other than ‘Fund the research’) is a description of the activity.
Plan and design the research: We support researchers to plan and design their research well. This includes involving the people the research is for and about to make sure they can take part.
Earn regulatory approval: We help researchers to find out what they need to do to do their research ethically and earn approvals and assurances so that their research can go ahead. We provide these approvals and assurances. These assurances are then used by the places where research will take place to set up and start the research.
Do the research: We review any changes to the research so that people can still trust it; We provide the Over-Volunteering Prevention System (TOPS); We encourage and support researchers to register their research.
Share research findings: We encourage and support researchers to publicly report their results and feed back to the people that took part.