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We carry out user-testing with a wide range of people and this helps us to improve the user-experience for everyone.

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 provides additional detail on MoD and Higher Education RECs, which are not delivered by the HRA.

Details of all approved applications are held in a register of approvals which is updated monthly. The register contains summary information about the activity, details of the identifiers approved, and applicant contact details.

HRA Approval currently applies to project-based research taking place in NHS organisations and independent contractor primary care services. HRA Approval does not yet cover non-NHS organisations commissioned to provide NHS services. Non-NHS Site Specific Information (SSI) forms should continue to be sent to the Research Ethics Committee for these sites.

The FOI Act requires that each public authority adopts and maintains a publication scheme that describes the classes of information that the Authority publishes or intends to publish. We will regularly review this publication scheme and update it where necessary, subject to approval from the Information Commissioner.

Information Governance, to the HRA, is a framework for handling not only personal and sensitive information but all information in a robust and transparent manner, applying confidentiality and security where appropriate and operating to high ethical and quality standards.

The National Research and Ethics Advisors' Panel (NREAP) is an independent, multidisciplinary expert panel which provides advice to the Health Research Authority (HRA) on an ad-hoc basis. The panel encompasses expertise in a wide range of disciplines related to health research including bioethics, medical research, patient and public involvement and Research Ethics Committees (RECs).

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

Under the UK Health Departments Governance Arrangements for Research Ethics Committees (GAfREC), each Research Ethics Committee (REC) within the Research Ethics Service, is required to adopt Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) approved by or on behalf of its appointing authority. The REC is required to act in accordance with its SOPs and is ultimately accountable to its appointing authority for its governance in this respect.

Here you will find details about who we are and what we do to do. It describes our governance structures, our partnerships, as well as our committees and services including information on individual Research Ethics Committees.