What is the difference between the remit of the NHS Research Ethics Committees (LREC/MREC) and the UCL Research Ethics Committee (REC)?
All research falling under the remit of ‘Governance Arrangements for NHS Research Ethics Committees’ (GAfREC) must be reviewed by an NHS Research Ethics Committee: The UCL Research Ethics Committee deals only with research proposals that have no connection with the NHS. ‘Ethical advice from the appropriate NHS LREC/MREC is required for any research proposal involving: • patients and users of the NHS. This includes all potential research participants recruited by virtue of the patient or user’s past or present treatment by, or use of, the NHS. It includes NHS patients treated under contracts with private sector institutions • individuals identified as potential research participants because of their status as relatives or carers of patients and users of the NHS, as defined above • access to data, organs or other bodily material of past and present NHS patients • fetal material and IVF involving NHS patients • the recently dead in NHS premises • the use of, or potential access to, NHS pr
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