Consultation responses

The Society’s members are often invited to input into consultation responses. Members' input is essential to producing valuable responses and other policy statements, and ensures their scientific expertise and advice is taken into account during decision making.

HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) ran a consultation on open access requirements for the post-2014 REF (following…

MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) ran a consultation on the continued availability of diclofenac as a…

The Home Office ran a consultation on the scheduling of tramadol under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. This followed a…

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) ran a consultation to discuss their proposed policy for access to clinical trial data for data…

The Commons Select Science and Technology Committee held an inquiry on the ‘leaky pipeline’ i.e. the continuous loss of women at…

The Society responded to the Ethical Standards in the Health & Life Sciences Group’s (ESHLSG) consultation to highlight our support…

The Finch Group met in September 2013 to review progress in implementing the recommendations from the report.

In order to inform this…

John O’Reilly, the Director General for Knowledge and Innovation at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) requested…

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) invited advice from stakeholders to develop the four UK funding bodies’ joint…

The House of Lords Science & Technology Committee recommended the Research Council UK’s (RCUK) policy on open access be revised to…

Consultation responses

Response to HEFCE’s consultation on open access requirements for the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework

Response to MHRA’s consultation on the availability of diclofenac as a pharmacy medicine

Response to the Home Office’s consultation on the scheduling of tramadol under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001

Response to the EMA’s consultation on draft policy on access to clinical trial data

Response to Science and Technology Committee’s (STC) inquiry on Women in STEM Response to Science and Technology Committee’s (STC) inquiry on Women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Response to the ESHLSG's consultation on declaration of payments to healthcare professionals

Response to Society of Biology’s survey of progress one year on from the Finch Report

The Society comments on research spending in 2015 - 2016

Response to HEFCE consultation into open access requirements for the post-2014 REF exercise

Response to RCUK’s revised policy and guidance on open access

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