Research governance frame work for health and social care / Department of Health.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health.
Date:
2001
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Research governance frame work for health and social care / Department of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2.1.1 Clinical governance aims to continually improve the overall standards of clinical care in the NHS and to reduce unacceptable variations in clinical practice. A comparable strategy is in place to improve the quality of social care services. Correspondingly, research governance is aimed at continuous improvement of standards and the reduction of unacceptable variations in research practice across health and social care. 2.1.2 Standards for research governance are set out in the Annex and include legislative requirements, Department of Health requirements and other helpful guidance produced from a variety of established sources. Professional judgement is necessarily involved in the interpretation of many aspects of the guidance. Quality in research therefore depends on those responsible being appropriately qualified with the relevant skills and experience to use their professional judgement effectively in the delivery of dependable research. 2.1.3 Health and social care research is not the province of a single discipline, profession or organisation and no single document adequately captures the full range of legislation, standards and guidelines that need to be applied across this wide ranging body of work. They are presented here in five domains: e Ethics. ° Science. e Information. ° Health, Safety and Employment. e Finance and Intellectual Property. 7