HRA - Developing a New Strategy Blog

3rd February 2025

HRA - Developing a New Strategy

We were created 13 years ago to protect participants and potential participants in health and social care research, to promote their interests, and to support and improve transparency in research.

Some of our work to do this is set out in law. This includes establishing and supporting Research Ethics Committees (RECs) in England, setting policy for how RECs operate across the UK, and co-ordinating and standardising research.

We also do things that are not set out in law, but help us deliver our objectives, like running IRAS - the service used by researchers to apply for the permissions and approvals to carry out health, social and community care studies in the UK - and our Make it Public strategy for research transparency.

These are strategic decisions that we have made about how we are going to deliver our mission. We need to make sure we use our resources in the best way possible to carry out this work and achieve the objectives we were set up to do.

That is why we write a strategy. It helps us agree our goals for the coming three years, and what we’re going to do to make change happen so that we can meet them.

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