Health Research Authority
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About the Health Research Authority (HRA)
Our vision is for high quality health and social care research today, which improves everyone’s health and wellbeing tomorrow.
We help realise this by making it easy to do research that people can trust.
We’re guided by two principles. To include, so that health and social care research is done with and for everyone, and to accelerate, so that research findings improve care faster because the UK is the easiest place in the world to do research that people can trust.
We are one of a number of organisations that work together in the UK to regulate different aspects of health and social care research. We oversee a range of committees and services, including Research Ethics Committees (RECs) and the Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) .
Most of our functions apply to research undertaken in England, but we also work closely with the other countries in the UK to provide a UK-wide system.
You can find out more about what we do at hra.nhs.uk