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The research and development department coordinates all ethics committee processes and procedures. The department monitors and supervises research activity and has also established a data monitoring committee. Each project carried out at Moorfields that involves patients’ or human tissue needs to run though a strict and formal approval process, carried out in conjunction with the Central Office for Research Ethics Committees, which is part of the National Patient Safety Agency.
This approval process ensures that all research carried out:
- is safe for participants,
- is conducted to the highest standards of research governance and scientific methodology,
- is in line with the project aims and objectives,
- is correctly recorded and catalogued, and
- is in compliance with all the statutory obligations.
Ethics applications are processed through the research governance committee meeting, and any researchers wishing to submit their projects must do so in a timely fashion.
