The University policy on “The Ethics of Research involving Human Participation and Personal Data” can be found here.

All research projects at the Clinical School involving human participants require a favourable ethics review

Most research at the Clinical School involves patients, their tissue or data and will require a favourable ethics opinion from the National Research Ethics Service (NRES).  The link below will take you to the Health Research Authority website where information can be found about applying for NRES ethics approval

http://www.hra.nhs.uk/research-community/

Review by the National Research Ethics Service is required by law in certain situations:

Adults lacking capacity to consent for themselves

Disclosure of protected information from HFEA Register

Exposure to ionising radiation 

Human tissue

Investigational medical devices 

Investigational medicinal products

Health and social care

Processing confidential patient information without consent 

Research involving drug intervention or children using the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre currently require NRES ethics approval whatever the status of the participant

Unless a condition of grant funding all other research can be reviewed by internal University research ethics committees

Information about these committees can be found at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/rso/ethics/recs/