ABSTRACT
It may be that you are not taking part in any research activity at all, or not referring patients to others' research projects or helping with a colleague's research project in any way. Doctors with special interests or responsibilities for research, or for teaching and training others about research, may weight the time and effort they spend on their personal and professional development towards research, and collect substantial evidence for their revalidation portfolio in relation to this section. The research governance framework describes best practice for all those involved in research from all perspectives: participants, researchers, principal investigator, funder, sponsor, employing organisation, care organisation, responsible care professional and research ethics committee. Nearly all the local GPs and practices cooperate to refer suitable patients so that the research study is sufficiently powerful to be able to provide conclusive evidence of relative benefits of the treatments being compared.
