# The Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2011, Regulation 25: Research

Extent: E+W

(1) The registered person must ensure that—
(a) before any research involving patients, information about patients, or human tissue is undertaken in or for the purposes of an establishment, a research proposal is prepared and approval is obtained from the appropriate Research Ethics Committee; and
(b) all such research projects include adequate safeguards for patients and employees.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), “the appropriate Research Ethics Committee” (“y Pwyllgor Moeseg Ymchwil priodol”) means a group of persons which assesses the ethics of research involving individuals and which is recognised for that purpose by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/734/regulation/25 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-25
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