RandD Approval Process
What is RandD Approval?
All research conducted within the NHS must have Research and Development Management Approval and is required from each participating NHS organisation undertaking clinical, health and social care research and development studies involving NHS patients, their tissues and/or data or NHS Resources.
Approval must be in place prior to initiation of the clinical research.
We advise researchers to contact the RandD office as early as possible to discuss and notify them of any research proposal.
Applications for NHS RandD management approval should be made using the Integrated Research Application System (IRAS).
All clinical, health and social care research and development studies in Scotland require to be submitted to the NHS Research Scotland Permissions Coordinating Centre (NRSPCC) at gram.nrspcc@nhs.scot.
NRSPCC will upload multicentre studies onto the shared Scottish RandD web-based database and make them available to participating Health Boards for review and approval, and will ensure single centre studies are available to the relevant R&D office.
All research teams are encouraged to submit their application for NHS RandD management approval in parallel with their application for an ethics committee opinion, as this will help expedite the RandD management approval process.
Audit and Service Evaluation fall out with the remit of NHS R&D and do not require R&D management approval.
Feasibilities and expressions of interest
External researchers wishing to include NHS Golden Jubilee as a host/participating site in health and social care research should contact gjnh.feasibility@gjnh.scot.nhs.uk in the first instance and submit a feasibility or Expression of Interest form alongside a protocol/study proposal.
The R&D team will work with the local clinical teams to confirm local interest and identify a Principal Investigator (PI) or local collaborator where appropriate.
