Royal College of Physicians Working Party on Research on Healthy Volunteers

Papers of the Royal College of Physicians Working Party on Drug Tests on Human Volunteers, on which the Patients Association was represented, by Elizabeth Ackroyd. Mainly documents produced by professional medical organisations and by the pharmaceutical industry and statements of evidence to the committee, covering the following issues: guidelines on the ethics and practice of medical research (with examples produced by different organisations and companies), student participation and NUS guidelines, civil liability, personal injury compensation, insurance for volunteer studies, life insurance for participants, payments and other inducements to volunteers, methods of volunteer selection, appropriate ethics committees, transition from pre-clinical studies to administration to humans, medical research and children, research on patients and the issue of full and informed consent, codes of professional conduct, research in the field of clinical psychology, recording the extent of injuries, involvement of pharmaceutical companies, pre-license studies in general practice, maintaining impartiality and monitoring standards, authenticity of data analysis, justifying research on healthy volunteers.

1984-1985

1 file (in 2 parts)