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Research governance framework for health and social care: Second edition

  • Document type:
    Publication
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    24 April 2005
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Publication format:
    Electronic only
  • Gateway reference:
    4747
  • Pages:
    55
  • Supersedes/replaces:
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

The Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care (RGFHSC) sets out the broad principle of good research governance. The RGFHSC Annex is available separately.

6 April 2006: In October 2005 a minor amendment to the 2nd edition was made. The last two sentences of footnote 21 on page 34 were new. Unfortunately the amendment was made to a draft that predated the version on the web. The correct version is posted below.

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