Regulation strangling clinical research, professor claims
Life science
20th October 2008
Over-regulation is holding back clinical research at the UK's top universities, academics have claimed.
Professor of clinical pharmacology Morris Brown said the rules that govern research need to be amended as quickly as possible, reports cambridgenetwork.co.uk.
Writing with several other researchers in the British Medical Journal, he commented: "Mindless regulation is halving the amount of research we can do and clearly works against the interest of the very patients it supposedly protects."
A single and simple web-based submission process for research studies in addition to a national ethical review process are among the ways in which the current regulations could be improved, the authors suggest.
Meanwhile, Professor John Cockcroft of the Wales Heart Institute in Cardiff has also claimed that unless the rules on clinical trials are relaxed, British patients will lose out to the US, reports the Western Mail.
