title: Research with adults who lack capacity.
abstract: Although the present Labour government has frequently claimed that it wishes to support and promote medical research, it has presided over the greatest ever increase of bureaucratic rules and regulations that appear to be designed with one aim in mind: to stifle medical research. One egregious example is the three new laws covering research with adults who lack capacity, and their three different requirements for obtaining permission to conduct such research. Reprinted below are the relevant parts of the legislation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005190:Family; D033161:Government Regulation; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007872:Legal Guardians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D020458:Third-Party Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006113:United Kingdom