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Under the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 (“IRMER”) and subsequent amendments, ethical approval is required by a Research Ethics Committee (REC) where any of the procedures in the research protocol involves exposure to ionising radiation and the participants are involved in medical or biomedical, diagnostic or therapeutic, research programmes.

For this purpose, a prisoner or young offender is defined as any inmate of the prison systems of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. It does not include patients detained under the Mental Health Act at special hospitals or other psychiatric secure units, or juvenile offenders detained in local authority secure accommodation or secure training centres.

There are many ethical and legal issues to consider when involving children and young people in research.

All investigational medicinal products (IMPs) go through a series of trials before they can be licensed for use.

If you are planning to create a research database or a research tissue bank (‘biobank’) then the following information may be helpful.

When the HRA became a Non Departmental Public Body on 1 January 2015, we took formal responsibility for research in adult social care.

Emergency research poses its own set of challenges in terms of providing information about the research and obtaining consent.

We offer a programme of training opportunities and shared learning resources for the research community, Research Ethics Committees (RECs), Confidentially Advisory Group (CAG) members and HRA staff.

We have a growing programme of eLearning modules designed to support our staff, the research community, Research Ethics Committees (RECs) and Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) members.