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Subject: RE: Health,impact assessment and LRECs
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:50:47 -0000
From: Queries <[log in to unmask]>
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Thank you.
The following reply has been provided by John Richardson,
Director of
Communications & Development
Thank you for your query.
Following discussion with Professor Terry Stacey, the
Director of COREC, I
write to say that, while we appreciate your difficulty with
inconsistent
responses from RECs, we are reluctant to be categoric about
whether or not
health impact assessment in general requires ethical review.
Much depends
on whether the `usual' ethical issues are raised in the
assessments you
propose - eg:
- How are patients identified?
- How is contact made with them?
- How are the data used? etc.
If you would like to provide information on the above, I
would be happy to
respond further. Alternatively you may wish to discuss
things ove the
phone - 020 7725 3454.
Regards
Queries Line
COREC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Scott-Samuel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 December 2004 16:32
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Health,impact assessment and LRECs
Dear colleagues,
I would be grateful if COREC could discuss whether health
impact assessment (HIA) falls within the remit of LRECs.
I have taken two health impact assessments
to research ethics committees: one was approved (though
some members wondered why they had been asked to approve
it), the second was rejected. The chair of the committee
which rejected the second HIA - a proposal to undertake HIA
on a large NHS capital programme, the North Mersey
Future Healthcare Programme, wrote separately to me at the
time of the rejection in order to state that in his view the
HIA constituted Service Development and that therefore I
should feel free to proceed with it.
I believe that these concerns apply in general to HIA and
that it is important to obtain central confirmation as to
whether or not HIA requires ethical approval. Definitions
and details of HIA can be found on our website (see below)
and on www.hiagateway.org.uk
Best wishes, Alex Scott-Samuel
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Dr Alex Scott-Samuel
Director
IMPACT - International Health Impact Assessment Consortium
Division of Public Health
University of Liverpool
Whelan Building
Quadrangle
Liverpool
L69 3GB
Tel (+44)151-794-5569
Fax (+44)151-794-5588
www.ihia.org.uk
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