The RGEA Sponsorship group will need to review your documentation alongside ethics review by the MS IDREC subcommittee if the study involves healthy volunteers and recruitment of NHS staff as participants, or use of NHS facilities, premises or identifiable data.
If submitting through the MS IDREC because your project involves the above, then the MS IDREC will accept the IRAS full dataset and site-specific information forms.
Even if a CUREC approved procedure exists, the Sponsorship process requires that you write a study-specific protocol for review. This study-specific protocol must describe in detail the objectives, design, methodology, statistical considerations and organisation of the research and will act as a ‘manual’ for the research team to ensure adherence to planned methods. As the research gets underway, it can be used to monitor progress and evaluate study outcomes.
The protocol should go into as much detail about the research project as possible, to enable all bodies to which you are submitting for approval to understand what you intend to do. The protocol is essential to ascertain that appropriate insurance cover can be provided for the study.
