Research Governance
In this section, you will find an explanation of what Research Governance is, an overview of how Research Governance has developed and summaries of key documents, regulations and other resources which are of relevance to healthcare research.
Subsections
This page explains what research governance is and whether it applies to you.
How has Research Governance developed?
This page summarises how research governance has evolved.
This section states the responsibilities of employees and College in health research.
This page explains the Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care.
This page explains what GCP is and links to the ICH GCP Guideline.
This section has information on the Act and also the NHS Caldicott Guardians.
Medicines for Human Use Regulations
This page describes the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.
This page outlines the EU Directives on Clinical Trials and Good Clinical Practice.
This page outlines the content of the Human Tissue Act.
This page briefly summarises the content of the Mental Capacity Act.
This page describes the Declaration of Helsinki, with links to the full text version.
This page gives a short description of the Nuremburg Code.

