New consultant committee representative, Committee for Ethical Issues in Medicine

Chair, Committee for Ethical Issues in Medicine, Royal College of Physicians.

Key influences may be hard to identify. In this personal paper I reflect on the role of the Chair of the Committee for Ethical Issues in Medicine (CEIM) and on ethical issues that have involved the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). The committee has a diverse membership including several distinguished figures from outside medicine. In order to fulfil additional responsibilities the committee c...

The European ethical review committee.

The European Ethical Review Committee, which concerns itself with the standards applicable to clinical trials with medicinal products, was established in 1977 and, as the name suggests, draws its membership from the countries of Europe. Its structure comprises a Board and panels of experts representing internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, general practice, nursing, legal and lay persons. B...

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European Ethical Review Committee: the experience of an international ethics committee reviewing protocols for drug trials.

An international ethics review committee, founded seven years ago, has several unusual features: it selects its own members, who are independent of the drug industry; it includes members with no medical or paramedical background, such as lay people and lawyers; and it reviews protocols together with the study's sponsor. Membership of 31 from nine European countries enables frequent meetings and...