UKCRC Regulatory and Governance Advice Service
The UKCRC R&G Advice Service
is a UK-wide service that provides:
- support for local advice providers, such as R&D offices,
clinical trials units and local research networks
- a route for handling complex queries e.g. those involving more
than one regulatory issue
- access to a range of web-based resources including tool kits
and a new Q&A site
The service is supported by a network of
regulatory and governance bodies, which are prioritising queries to
the UKCRC R&G Advice Service in order to provide authoritative
and timely responses. The Service is jointly coordinated by the
UKCRN
Regulatory Team and the
MRC Regulatory Support Centre.
The diagram below illustrates the overall
structure of local and national regulatory and governance
advice provision in the UK and shows the importance of a joined-up
approach.
The UKCRC R&G Advice Service has been
piloted in Nottingham, Manchester, Scotland, Southampton, Wales and
also in some Clinical Trials Units and MRC research units. For more
information please see the
report of the pilot project. The Advice Service was rolled out
to cover the whole of the UK in April 2007 with a series of
regional road shows for local advice providers.
Further information can be found on the
UKCRC R&G Advice
Service website and in the
UKCRC R&G Advice Service leaflet.
A PowerPoint slide
giving an overview of the UKCRC R&G Advice Service is also
available to download.