Sorry about that. With regard to the hospitals, LRECs don't specifically
cover individual hospitals any more, but cover every hospital within the
whole SHA (including those that would normally come under one of the other
LRECs within the SHA), so you only need one LREC per SHA and it doesn't
matter which one. Part of the change is that in line with new legislation,
research involving use of drugs in humans has to go through a REC regardless
of where it is carried out (previously, RECs were only needed for NHS
establishments), but there is also a surprisingly (well it was to me anyway)
and increasingly large amount of proposals going through RECs that don't
involve hospitals (quite apart from the research by GPs there is an
increasing workload from Masters and PhDs from community nurses,
physiotherapists, psychologists etc.). The only way I can think of doing it
is by working out which SHA each hospital is in and picking a LREC within it
at random. I hadn't realised that the e-mail didn't work. Only checked it
with my own secretary and hers was the right one. Apologies.
Matt Dunn
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