New Framework for UK Health and Social Care Research Launched
17-10-17
The new UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research has been launched. The new guidelines replace separate Research Governance Frameworks in each UK country with a single, modern set of principles for the whole UK. It has been developed by the Health Research Authority and the health departments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, following public consultation.
The policy framework applies to health and social care research involving patients, service users or their relatives or carers. This includes research involving them indirectly, for example using information that the NHS or social care services have collected about them.