title: Reforming health research regulation: an incomplete solution.
abstract: Following the 2011 Budget, the UK Government has announced that as part of its reform of the NHS it will be establishing a new special health authority which will have the task of regulating research. This article considers these proposals and suggests that while a strong health regulator may be in itself a praiseworthy initiative, the current proposals simply do not go far enough and there is a need for radical reconceptualization of research regulation as a whole.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Law Science and Policy, University of Birmingham.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McHale
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom