PART IIICONDUCT OF HEALTH CARE ESTABLISHMENTS

CHAPTER 1QUALITY OF SERVICE PROVISION

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1

The registered person shall ensure that—

a

before any research involving patients, information about patients, or human tissue is undertaken in or for the purposes of an establishment, a research proposal is prepared and approval is obtained from the appropriate Research Ethics Committee; and

b

all such research projects include adequate safeguards for patients and employees.

2

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), “the appropriate Research Ethics Committee” means a research ethics committee established in accordance with guidance issued from time to time by the National Assembly.