Passing the Buck: How the Academy of Medical Sciences's 'New Pathway for the Regulation and Governance of Health Research' Shifts the Regulatory Burden but Fails to Improve the Quality of Research Governance

Research Ethics 7 (3):82-90 (2011)
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In this paper the author argues that the Academy of Medical Sciences's ‘Review of the regulation and governance of medical research’ has produced a set of muddled recommendations that could increase complexity and uncertainty in research governance rather than reduce it. Issues discussed in the paper include the additional legal burden placed upon the newly proposed Health Research Agency by the plan for a National Research Governance Service and its system of centralized permissions, the consequences that this may have for the research ethics committees in the discharge of their legal duty, and the unanswered questions surrounding the TGN1412 incident

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