Do I need NHS REC review?

My study location: Wales

Will your research involve the storage of relevant material from the living or the deceased on premises in England, Wales or Northern Ireland without a storage licence from the Human Tissue Authority (HTA)?

This includes storage of imported material.

Storage does not include:

i. Storage of relevant material incidental to transportation: provided that relevant material is removed from the premises within hours or days (or at most a week), or

ii. Temporary storage prior to rendering acellular: provided that residual relevant material is disposed of or rendered acellular within hours or days (or at most a week).

YES

Will your research involve storage or use of relevant material from the living, collected on or after 1st September 2006, and the research is not within the terms of consent for research from the donors?

This does not include imported material.

YES

Will your research involve the analysis of human DNA in cellular material (relevant material), collected on or after 1st September 2006, and this analysis is not within the terms of consent for research from the donor?

and/or

Will your research involve the analysis of human DNA from materials that do not contain cells (for example: serum or processed bodily fluids such as plasma and semen) and this analysis is not within the terms of consent for research from the donor?

What is important here is if you hold and process material in order to analyse its DNA. If you do then you should answer YES

If you are using DNA that has already been extracted and isolated from human cells, the answer to this question is NO.

YES

If none of the above apply, please select NO

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