Why are organisational approvals needed for low-risk staff studies in the UK? Procedures, barriers, and burdens
There is the potential for HRA processes to use more NHS resources than the research study itself when recruiting to a low-risk staff study across multiple organisations. There is a need to reduce unnecessary administrative burden and bureaucracy to give clinicians and research staff more opportunities to participate in research, and to free up NHS R&D departments, research nurses and clinicians to focus on more demanding and patient focused research studies. Hospices need standardised guidance on how to assess the risk of being involved in low-risk research without adopting the unnecessarily complex systems that are currently used within the NHS.
Authors
- Amy Gadoud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6351-1535)
- Andrew Dickman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6493-8979)
- Amara Callistus Nwosu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0014-3741)
- Lesley Dunleavy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5924-8145)
- John Ellershaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9789-3180)
- Nancy Preston (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2659-2342)
- Catherine Walshe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4531-8608)
- Ruth Board (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-0823)
- Séamus Coyle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4761-9703)
- Sheila Payne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6982-9181)
- Brooke Swash (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2457-954X)
- Catherine Elizabeth Lightbody (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5016-3471)
- Nick Hulbert-Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-5485)
- Stephen Mason (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4020-6869)
- Andrea Partridge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4965-2913)
- Jaime Halvorsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7172-3300)
- Vanessa Taylor
Institutions
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Huddersfield (GB)
- University of Chester (GB)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Edge Hill University (GB)
- University of Lancashire (GB)
- Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- NIHR Research Delivery Network (GB)
- Lancaster University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Health Services Research
- Published
- 2024-11-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11886-0
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.54
Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Department of Health and Social Care