NRES form to close from the 1 April

National Research Ethics Service (NRES) and NHS R&D Forum have announced that the NRES form system will be closed to new applications from 1 April.

 

Users with unlocked forms will be able to complete their forms and submit them up until 1 September 2009. It will also be possible to generate and submit new SSI Forms to R&D for ongoing studies until this date.

 

Access to data held within the NRES on-line form system will continue after 1 September 2009 but it will no longer be possible to make applications. New functionality will be added to IRAS prior to 1 September 2009 to allow users to create a minimal dataset for older studies where the original application was made using the

NRES on-line form and to enable SSI Forms, Notices of Amendment and ARSAC forms to be generated for those studies where necessary.

 

 

What about SSA-exempt studies or sites?

There will no longer be a need for researchers or RECs to decide whether a study or a site requires SSA. All studies require applications for R&D review for each NHS research site. Studies that would previously have been regarded as “SSA-exempt” have always required NHS R&D review, and will continue to do so. NHS R&D review already considers the issues that are appropriate to a particular study at that site.

 

From the 1 April 2009, Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) will be the only way in which to submit new applications to NHS Research Ethics Committees.

 

For further information please visit:

 

> National Research Ethics Service (NRES)

 

> NHS R&D Forum