The British Medical Journal Editor’s Choice, published on 5th June 2013, discusses the beneficial and harmful effects of drugs on patients; highlighting how the majority of drugs do not work in most patients and how a radical shift in the way we evaluate and use drugs is required if better and safer care is to be delivered. To read the full Editor’s Choice, simply click on the link: http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3666
The HRA have launched new Quality Standards and Design and Review Principles to improve the information given to people who are invited to take part in research. The Quality Standards set out what good participant information looks like. The Design...
Following the Health and Care Act 2022, a new, statutory, Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1st July with responsibility for providing £1.5 billion of health care services to the people of Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and...
Eligibility criteria The new student research eligibility criteria encourages innovative approaches to student research like group research, mock Research Ethics Committees (REC) or shadowing a range of people in an existing project. The criteria: Undergraduate level: Health and social...