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What is Dynamic Consent?

After five years as chair (and several more as a member before that), Dr Mark Taylor is stepping down from the Confidentiality Advisory Group. As Dr Taylor leaves to take on a new role at Melbourne Law School in Australia, he describes how the group gave him a fresh insight into discussions of how the privacy of patients sits alongside the public interest.

Health and social care researchers used to be faced with a very complex regulatory system – everyone agreed we needed a new approach. So we consulted with a wide range of stakeholders to develop HRA Approval, which brings together the assessment of legal compliance and the ethics review into one streamlined system.

Implementation of HRA Approval continues, with the third cohort of studies incorporating all study types which exclude the first four categories of IRAS from 30 November 2015. This extends HRA Approval to a broad range of studies other than clinical trials or clinical investigations taking place in secondary care in the NHS. Early studies for this cohort have included cross-border studies with the devolved administrations, managed through compatible arrangements between the nations.

This section focuses on the steps you need to follow in order to apply to a Research Ethics Committee.