Abstract
Sometimes there is a need to answer important clinical questions quickly. Bureaucracy can erect an insurmountable barrier. The Research Governance Framework (RGF) for Health
and Social Care was introduced in England in 2005 aiming to improve the efficiency and quality of research in the NHS, but has unwittingly introduced a new layer of bureaucracy
which is preventing some important questions being answered.
We attempted to survey prescribing practices among UK psychiatrists in response to an urgent need for this information. There was huge variation between the responses of Research and Development (R and D) offices and our capacity to address the requirements of each office was overwhelmed. R and D approval can now be impossible to obtain. This implies the need for a radical rethink of the system. Scotland is now leading the way in the development of the first UK Multicentre R and D committee which aims to create a standardised and more simple system.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 217-218 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |
Volume | 101 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2008 |
Keywords
- bureaucracy
- mathematics
- statistics
- research