New Zealand Health and Disability Ethics Committees


 
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2009

20 Nov: Rohan Murphy has been appointed as the Manager of Ethics Committees as of October 2009

Rohan can be contacted on 04 496 2053 or nc_ethicscommittees@moh.govt.nz

2 Nov: Northern X meeting minutes for 8 Sep



4 Sep: New appointments to the Multi-region Ethics Committee

Mr Richman Wee has been appointed Chairperson of the Multi-region Ethics Committee by the Minister of Health. Mr Hector Matthews has been appointed as a community member, Maori.

Our thanks to Dr Barry Smith for his long and dedicated service to the Multi-region Ethics Committee, particularly over the past 14 months when he has been acting Chairperson.

6 Aug: Applications to the Multi-region Ethics Committee

Please refer to the guidelines for completing the application form and ensure the following:
  • all documentation is submitted as requested
  • all applications are correctly collated
  • applications are not stapled
Please note that incomplete or incorrectly collated applications may be returned to the sender at their expense.

6 Aug: Delivering Applications to the Upper South Committees

There is no longer a receptionist at the Christchurch office, level 4, 250 Oxford Terrace, to receive applications. A 'drop box' system is in operation. The dimensions of the drop box are 46cm by 20cm. If you do not wish to leave a larger box/package in the public foyer area, please ensure that it is in packages that will fit into the drop box.

8 Jun: Change of Name of Upper South B Administrator from Diana Passe to Diana Whipp

Our congratulations to Diana Whipp (previously Passe) on her recent marriage. Please note her change of surname.

8 Apr: National Application Form for Ethical Approval of a Research Project-2009-v1

The 2009 version of the National Application Form for Ethical Approval of a Research Project is now available. The 2005 version will be accepted until 30 September 2009. Researchers may be asked, however, to resubmit the compensation declaration form B if it is not the 2009 version and provide other documentation requested in the application form 2009-v1. The committees would like to thank researchers and organisations for their input into the process.

Note: a checklist is to be attached to the front of each application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Pending is an option only for written confirmation of Maori consultation, SCOTT approval, and Locality assessment by organisation. For multi-region studies, the documentation for one site must be complete.

The National Application form and Guidelines are available on the National Application Form page.

17 Mar: Multi-region Ethics Committee Administration

We welcome Rebecca Stewart to the Multi-region Ethics Committee Administration. Rebecca's contact details are available on the Multi-region Ethics Committee page.

10 Mar: Lower South Regional Ethics Committee Administration

We welcome Anna Paris to the Lower South Regional Ethics Committee administration. Anna's standard hours will be 9.15 to 2.45 Monday to Friday except on the Lower South Regional Ethics Committee meeting day when she will start at midday. Her contact details are available on the Lower South Ethics Committee page.

3 Mar: Change of agenda closing date for Central Regional Ethics Committee

View on the Committe Resources page - Meeting dates

23 Feb: Administrator Changes for the Lower South and Multi-region Ethics Committees

We sadly farewell Riria Tautau-Grant, Lower South Regional Ethics Committee Administrator, and Annisha Vasutavan, Multi-region Ethics Committee Administrator.

Di Rutledge will be assisting with the Lower South administration. Di's contact details are phone (03) 372 3094, email: di_rutledge@moh.govt.nz.

Tallia Beri will be assisting with the Multi-region Ethics Committee administration. Tallia's contact details are available under the Multi-region Ethics Committee.

23 Feb: Annual Reports for the year ending Dec 2007 are now available.

Select the commitee region from the green box on the right

18 Feb: Change of agenda closing date for Lower South Regional Ethics Committee on 3 March

Please note a new agenda closing time and date for the 3 March meeting of the Lower South Regional Ethics Committee to 3pm on 20 February. This is to enable the applications to be processed in Christchurch and distributed in time for members to read the agenda prior to the meeting.

The agenda closing dates for Lower South Regional Ethics Committee for the rest of the year have also been updated. View the updated meeting dates for 2009.

15 Jan: Committee member vacancies

Nominations and or applications are invited for the following vacancies and terms of appointment that will be completed in 2009. The closing date is 30 January 2009.

Northern X Regional Ethics Committee
  • 1 Health Practitioner
  • 1 Health Researcher
  • 1 Pharmacist/Pharmacologist
  • 1 Consumer Representative
  • 1 Community Representative
One of the above members must be a Māori member with a recognised awareness of Te Reo Māori, and an understanding of Tikanga Māori.


Northern Y Regional Ethics Committee
  • 2 Community Representatives
  • 1 Health Researchers
  • 1 Ethicist
  • 1 Health Practitioner
  • 1 Consumer Representative
One of the above members must be a Māori member with a recognised awareness of Te Reo Māori, and an understanding of Tikanga Māori.


Central Regional Ethics Committee
  • 1 Health Researcher
  • 1 Lawyer
  • 1 Phamacist/Pharmacologist
  • 2 Community Representatives
  • 2 Health Practitioners
  • 1 Ethicist
Two of the above members must be Māori members with a recognised awareness of Te Reo Māori, and an understanding of Tikanga Māori.


Multi-Region Ethics Committee
  • 1 Consumer Representative
  • 1 Health Researcher
  • 1 Lawyer
  • 2 Health Practitioners
  • 2 Community Representatives
One of the above members must be a Māori member with a recognised awareness of Te Reo Māori, and an understanding of Tikanga Māori.


Upper South A Regional Ethics Committee
  • 1 Lawyer
  • 1 Health Researcher
  • 1 Community Representative
  • 1 Health Practitioner
One of the above members must be a Māori member with a recognised awareness of Te Reo Māori, and an understanding of Tikanga Māori.

Upper South B Regional Ethics Committee
  • 2 Consumer Representatives
  • 2 Community Representatives
  • 1 Lawyer
  • 2 Health Practitioner
  • 1 Health Researcher
One of the above members must be a Māori member with a recognised awareness of Te Reo Māori, and an understanding of Tikanga Māori.

Lower South Regional Ethics Committees:
  • 1 Lawyer
  • 1 Ethicist
  • 1 Health Practitioner
  • 1 Health Researcher
  • 1 Community Representative
  • 1 Consumer Representative
One of the above members must be a Māori member with a recognised awareness of Te Reo Māori, and an understanding of Tikanga Māori.


Applications may be completed on-line (attach a CV), at:

http://www.moh.govt.nz/apps/statcommittees.nsf/application?open


Alternatively, please send nominations and any queries to:

Veronica Lovell
Corporate Planning & Reporting
Ministry of Health
PO Box 5013
Wellington

Phone: (04) 470 0616 or
email veronica_lovell@moh.govt.nz

The decision to appoint committee members will be made by the Minister of Health and this appointments process is likely to continue for several months after the closing date, 30 January 2009.


2008

12 Dec: Festive season office hours

The Regional Ethics Committees offices will be closed over the festive season from 12pm on Wednesday the 24th December 2008 to Monday 5 January 2009
The ethics team wishes the research community a safe and happy festive season.

31 Oct: 2009 Meeting and Agenda Dates

The 2009 meeting and agenda dates for the Committees are now available - Meeting dates 2009 (revised version posted 27 Nov)

5 Sep: Upper South B Regional Ethics Committee April Meeting Agenda Closing Date change

Due to the advertised agenda closing date, 27 October 2008, being a public holiday, applications will be accepted until midday on Tuesday, 28 October.

8 Sep: Central Regional Ethics Committee Administration

We welcome Sonia Scott to the administration team. Sonia replaces Jiska van Bruggen providing the administration for the Central Regional Ethics Committee. Her standard hours will be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9 - 3.30pm. Sonia's contact details are available under the Central Regional Ethics Committee.

5 Sep: Upper South B Regional Ethics Committee April Meeting Agenda Closing Date change

Due to the advertised agenda closing date, 27 October 2008, being a public holiday, applications will be accepted until midday on Tuesday, 28 October.

5 Sep: Central Regional Ethics Committee Administration

We welcome Sonia Scott to the administration team. Sonia replaces Jiska van Bruggen providing the administration for the Central Regional Ethics Committee. Her standard hours will be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9 - 3.30pm. Sonia's contact details are available under the Central Regional Ethics Committee.

21 Aug: New Terms of Reference for the Health and Disability Ethics Committees

Changes to the committees' terms of reference:

1. While the Committees' primary responsibility for applications within their jurisdiction remains unchanged, any other regional ethics committee or the Multi-region Ethics Committee may now, if it has capacity, review multi-region and national health and disability research or research from any region.
2. Committees may choose to elect a second Deputy Chairperson. The second Deputy Chairperson may either be a health professional or a lay member.
3. The Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons may claim an allowance of up to four days per month for additional work between meetings.
4. Committee decisions may be reviewed by the Health Research Council Ethics Committee under the Health Research Council Act 1990.

Please note that applications must still be submitted to the Multi-region Ethics Committee if it is national or multi-regional research or the appropriate regional ethics committee. If an application is unable to be heard at the meeting for which it was submitted, researchers will be advised and offered the opportunity for their application to be considered by another committee if there is capacity or alternatively, applicants may prefer to be given priority on the next agenda for the committee to which it was submitted. Only complete applications, ie with only confirmation of Māori consultation, locality assessment by organisation and SCOTT pending, will be accepted on to an agenda.

21 Aug: Change of email address for Northern Y Regional Ethics Committee/Administrator on leave

Northern Y Regional Ethics Committee now has its own email address, northerny_ethicscommittee@moh.govt.nz. Please use this for all future correspondence with the Committee.

The Administrator, Amrita Kuruvilla will be on leave from 21 August until 29 September. The committee administration will be covered by other ethics committee administrators during her absence. The phone will be forwarded; messages and correspondence will be attended to daily. If your query is urgent, please contact the National Co-ordinator. Emails to northerny_ethicscommittee@moh.govt.nz will be responded to.

30 July: Open Forum in Dunedin 18 August 2008

Researchers are invited to attend an open forum with members of the Multi-region Ethics Committee and the Chairperson of the Lower South Regional Ethics Committee from 3 - 5pm on 18 August at the Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum. For more information contact Annisha Vasutavan 04 470 0646, annisha_vasutavan@moh.govt.nz.

30 July: Multi-region Ethics Committee meeting

The Multi-region Ethics Committee's 19 August meeting will be held in the Ministry of Health office, 229 Moray Place, Dunedin.

30 July: Central Regional Ethics Committee Administration

Jiska van Bruggen has taken up a new role. A new appointment is pending for the Administrator, Central Regional Ethics Committee. In the interim, the Central Regional Ethics Committee email and phone will be continue to be monitored by the ethics administration team, including temporary administrator, Martin Dutton.

17 Mar: Vacancies

 The Ministry of Health is currently seeking nominations and or applications for the Northern Y and Central Regional Ethics Committees
  • Northern Y Regional Ethics Committee: Current vacancy for one lawyer.
  • Central Regional Ethics Committee: Current vacancy for one health practitioner.
  • Applications for these vacancies close on 8 April 2008

25 Mar: New Members for the Regional Ethics Committees

We thank the outgoing committee members for their excellent work and welcome new members to the regional ethics committees. Updated membership lists are now available under About the Committees

17 Mar: Upper South B Regional Ethics Committee April Meeting Agenda Closing Date change

Due to the advertised agenda closing date, 24 March 2008, being Easter Monday, applications will be accepted until midday on Tuesday, 25 March.

Administrator change for the Upper South B Regional Ethics Committee

We welcome Diana Passe to the administration team. Diana replaces Di Rutledge providing the administration for the Upper South B Regional Ethics Committee and will work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Diana's contact details are available under the Upper South A & B Committees.

14 Jan: Administrator change for the Multi-region Ethics Committee

We welcome Annisha Vasutavan to the Multi-region Ethics Committee administration team.
Annisha will work with Emalene Pearson to provide the committee administration. Emalene and Annisha's contact details are available under the Multi-region Ethics Committee.

21 Dec: Consultation on the Draft National Application Form for Ethical Approval of a Research Project (NAF-2008-v1) and Guidelines (NAFG-2008-v1)

The National Application form for Ethical Approval of a Research Project and accompanying guidelines are being updated. Your feedback is important in helping to further develop these documents. Please take this opportunity to have your say.

Please send your comments in the format provided in the document below to:
Sally Cook
National Co-ordinator, Ethics Committees
Ministry of Health
PO Box 5013
WELLINGTON
Email: sally_cook@moh.govt.nz

Format for Submissions (Word, 22 KB)

Submissions close on 12 February 2008.

The draft forms and guidelines are provided below:

2007


18 Dec: Meetings in January

The Multi-region Ethics Committee will meet on 22 January. The agenda closing date for this meeting is 7 January.
Northern Y Regional Ethics Committee will meet on 29 January if sufficient applications are received. The agenda closing date is 11 January.
Upper South A Regional Ethics Committee will meet on 21 January is sufficient applications are received. The agenda closing date is 7 January.
If the above meetings are not held, any applications received will be transferred respectively to the Northern X and Upper South B Regional Ethics Committee agendas.

13 Dec: Welcome to the new Ethics Committees website

This website has been re-organised to make it easier to use and find information. Thank you to all those who responded to the recent online survey – your feedback helped inform the new design. If you have bookmarked pages on the old site, these will need to be updated. We welcome any feedback on the changes.


Page last updated: 20 November 2009