Health Research Authority

The HRA is one of a number of bodies responsible for the regulation and governance of health and social care research in the UK. 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. To achieve our vision and mission, we:

• make sure that research is ethically reviewed and approved • promote transparency in research • oversee a range of committees and services and • provide independent recommendations on the processing of identifiable patient information where it is not always practical to obtain consent, for research and non-research projects.