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The introduction of the GDPR brings with it stricter requirements around how organisations inform people of how their personal data is being used. We have drafted a series of templates to help organisations meet this requirement.

We've worked with partners to develop Technical Guidance intended for Data Protection Officers (DPO), research managers, information governance or security architecture leads, or equivalent roles. It may also be relevant to researchers.

Under the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 (“IRMER”) and subsequent amendments, ethical approval is required by a Research Ethics Committee (REC) where any of the procedures in the research protocol involves exposure to ionising radiation and the participants are involved in medical or biomedical, diagnostic or therapeutic, research programmes.

For this purpose, a prisoner or young offender is defined as any inmate of the prison systems of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. It does not include patients detained under the Mental Health Act at special hospitals or other psychiatric secure units, or juvenile offenders detained in local authority secure accommodation or secure training centres.

There are many ethical and legal issues to consider when involving children and young people in research.

All investigational medicinal products (IMPs) go through a series of trials before they can be licensed for use.

If you are planning to create a research database or a research tissue bank (‘biobank’) then the following information may be helpful.