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R&D Office submission

At Barts and the London NHS Trust it is necessary to submit an application to the Joint R&D Office before you submit to the ethics committee seeking approval.

This is because The East London and the City Research Ethics Committee requires a letter of provisional R&D approval from R&D and, if applicable, a letter of sponsorship approval to include with your application.

When you have received a favourable opinion from the ethics committee, you should forward a copy of the approval letter to us so we can provide you with final R&D approval. No aspect of the study may begin within the Trust or School before you have the final approval letter.

For every project you wish to submit to R&D, please send both electronic and signed hard copies of the following documents to the R&D Office:

• Completed NRES ethics application form (Parts A, B and SSI with relevant signatures on the hard copy) or the IRAS R&D Form.
• All supporting documents, such as patient information sheet, consent form, GP letter, questionnaire, peer review etc.
• Short, signed copy of Principal Investigator's CV.
• One copy of the Research Proposal/Protocol for BLT/QMUL sponsored trials. Templates for both CTIMP and Non-CTIMP trials are available: 

Download CTIMP Protocol Template
Download Non-CTIMP Protocol Template 
(Non-CTIMPs can vary considerably and The Research Support Unit can provide advice where needed)

• One Appendix setting out the study team to accompany the Research Proposal/Protocol. Here are templates for both CTIMP and non-CTIMP trials:
  Download CTIMP study team contacts
  Download Non-CTIMP study team contacts
• If you wish the Trust or University to sponsor your study, a completed and signed Conditions of Sponsorship Agreement (download below).

• If the study is a clinical trial, we also need a copy of the Clinical Trials Authorisation (CTA) from the MHRA. Read more>>

Please note that when submitting documents they should be in ".doc", ".xls", or ".pdf" format. We are not yet operating in Windows 2007!

Study submission documents should be sent to: researchsubmissions@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk

Study amendments should be sent to: researchamendments@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk

or by post to:

Joint R&D Office
Lower Ground Floor
Queen Mary's Innovation Centre
5 Walden Street
Whitechapel
London
E1 2EF

When the study has been finally approved by the Joint R&D it will be registered on the joint R&D database.

To help with this the Joint R&D Office has developed a checklist to make sure all the right documents are there when submitting a research project to R&D.

Download R&D Submission Checklist

Useful documents and information:

Download BLT Conditions of Sponsorship - CTIMP

Download BLT Conditions of Sponsorship - Non CTIMP

Download ELFT Conditions of Sponsorship - Non CTIMP 

Download QMUL Conditions of Sponsorship - CTIMP

Download QMUL Conditions of Sponsorship - Non CTIMP

Download BLT Conditions of Legal Representative Agreement.