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Home Become a member OHRN Research Ethics and Governance Policy and Reports Resource Funding opportunities Conferences & workshops Regional Centres Offender Psychological Therapy Network University of Manchester	The OHRN Toolkit aims to outline a clear pathway to successfully undertake health research in the criminal justice system. The toolkit is available to download below. The current version is dated November 2010. A group has been set up comprising of representatives from OHRN, Department of Health, NRES, Ministry of Justice and NOMS and has agreed to meet regularly to review the procedures. The Researchers' Handbook has been developed to provide an introduction for offender health research. The intended audience is for front-line staff new to research, as well as academics who have yet to conduct research in the criminal justice system. Please contact Charlotte Lennox on charlotte.lennox@manchester.ac.uk if you have any questions or queries about the approval procedures for offender health research. Download: Toolkit 5th Edition (pdf 243KB) Download: Researchers' Handbook 5th Edition (pdf 593KB) Download: REC approval flowchart (pdf 38KB) Download: Essentials of Research Governance (produced by The University of Manchester; pdf 255 KB) Links National Research Ethics Service for NHS REC Approval Intergrated Research Application System for NHS REC Approval RD Forum for contact details for PCT Research Governance departments HM Prison Service Research page for NOMS Approval Useful Information Plan for Growth The Healthcare and Life Sciences section of the Plan for Growth highlights that health research has a key role in the national economy as well as in improving health and care. In the Plan, the Government makes a series of announcements that will be of great significance for ethics and governance in the coming years. The Academy of Medical Science - A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research The report was prepared by a working group, chaired by Professor Sir Michael Rawlins FMedSci, convened in response to an invitation from Government to review the regulation and governance of UK health research involving human participants, their tissue or their data. Ethics in research involving prisoners This paper reports on the ethics of involving prisoners in research If you have any questions or comments about this project, the main contact is Charlotte Lennox, on charlotte.lennox@manchester.ac.uk or 0161 306 8014.

The OHRN Toolkit aims to outline a clear pathway to successfully undertake health research in the criminal justice system. The toolkit is available to download below. The current version is dated November 2010. A group has been set up comprising of representatives from OHRN, Department of Health, NRES, Ministry of Justice and NOMS and has agreed to meet regularly to review the procedures. The Researchers' Handbook has been developed to provide an introduction for offender health research. The intended audience is for front-line staff new to research, as well as academics who have yet to conduct research in the criminal justice system.

Please contact Charlotte Lennox on charlotte.lennox@manchester.ac.uk if you have any questions or queries about the approval procedures for offender health research.

Download: Toolkit 5th Edition (pdf 243KB)
Download: Researchers' Handbook 5th Edition (pdf 593KB)

Download: REC approval flowchart (pdf 38KB)
Download: Essentials of Research Governance (produced by The University of Manchester; pdf 255 KB)

Links

National Research Ethics Service for NHS REC Approval
Intergrated Research Application System for NHS REC Approval
RD Forum for contact details for PCT Research Governance departments
HM Prison Service Research page for NOMS Approval

Useful Information

Plan for Growth
The Healthcare and Life Sciences section of the Plan for Growth highlights that health research has a key role in the national economy as well as in improving health and care. In the Plan, the Government makes a series of announcements that will be of great significance for ethics and governance in the coming years.
The Academy of Medical Science - A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research
The report was prepared by a working group, chaired by Professor Sir Michael Rawlins FMedSci, convened in response to an invitation from Government to review the regulation and governance of UK health research involving human participants, their tissue or their data.
Ethics in research involving prisoners
This paper reports on the ethics of involving prisoners in research

If you have any questions or comments about this project, the main contact is Charlotte Lennox, on charlotte.lennox@manchester.ac.uk or 0161 306 8014.