UKCRC Regulatory & Governance Advice Service

The UKCRC Regulatory and Governance (R&G) Advice Service is a UK-wide resource for those involved in health research in the UK. The Advice Service aims to provide consistent and authoritative advice on a range of regulatory and governance issues, primarily to support local advice providers, such as NHS R&D departments, university research managers, MRC employees or Clinical Trial Unit staff without access to R&D offices within the NHS or universities.

The Advice Service does this by providing:

• A route for handling complex queries, such as those involving more than one regulatory issue

• On-line resources such as Tool Kits, Best Practice Documents and Question & Answers (Q&As)
  

If you are a researcher and would like advice on meeting requirements in a particular study, the above tools or your local university or NHS Research & Development office should be able to help in the first instance.  

The Service is coordinated by:

1. NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre (NIHR CRN CC), focussing on clinical trials and other well designed clinical studies; and
   
   
2. MRC Regulatory Support Centre (RSC), focussing on experimental medicine, and research involving human tissue or data.

The Service is supported by an Advice Network, which is made up of UK regulatory agencies, governance bodies and policy makers (e.g. MHRA, HTA, NRES, NHS R&D Forum, DH, CSO, etc.) to ensure that responses to queries are authoritative.

To look at the Q&As, submit a query or find out more information, please visit the Advice Service website.