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The Guidelines & Legislation section brings together compliance guidance, best practice resources and support materials to help you navigate legal, ethical and regulatory requirements. 

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BHBIA/ABPI guidance on reporting adverse events, product complaints and special reporting situations

The Guidance notes on collecting adverse events, product complaints and special reporting situations during market research are produced by the BHBIA in conjunction with the ABPI.

Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Healthcare Market Research - including Practical Examples

The BHBIA Legal and Ethical Guidelines include everything you need, in one place, to keep your market research project running smoothly from a legal and ethical point of view - saving you time and trouble.

Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Healthcare Data Analytics

BHBIA guidelines are designed to help us all reduce risk, improve performance and make life a little simpler by drawing key information together in one place.
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Keeping Respondents and Fieldworkers Safe When Undertaking Face-to-Face Market Research

This covers some key aspects to consider when undertaking face-to-face market research and is especially relevant to situations where environmental factors or respondent/recruiter vulnerability may pose a risk.

Guidelines for Patient Research

A summary of the key sections of the BHBIA's Legal and Ethical Guidelines that pertain specifically to conducting market research with patients.

New Guidance - What is Research Ethics Committee Approval and When is it Needed?

To introduce the concept of ‘ethics committee approval’ and distinguish between Market Research and Health Research and provide some background on why Research Ethics Committee (REC) approval is not a requirement when undertaking Market Research.

Guidelines for Remuneration Within Market Research

BHBIA members are encouraged to use this guide to reduce problematic pressures on respondent remuneration based on ‘fair market values’, known as FMVs, during the primary market research process.

ABPI Disclosure Requirements

Disclosure requires pharmaceutical companies to make publicly available the details of MR-related payments, on a named basis, IF the identities of HCPs or HCOs who take part in the MR are intentionally known or disclosed to the pharmaceutical company. This summary outlines the basics of the requirements.

Guidelines for Market Research Fieldwork

Overall summary of key principles that need to be addressed when conducting fieldwork - this will be particularly useful for companies or individuals involved primarily in fieldwork, especially those who are less familiar with the whole research process.

Ethics & Compliance Committee Webinar Dec 2023 – The Final Word

ECC member Yuliya Fontanetti presented the “Compliant Use of AI” session in the committee’s wrap up of the year webinar. Members can access the recording and slides.

Guidance on Approval Requirements for Market Research in the UK

A document to help those planning to conduct market research projects in the UK aimed at facilitating project progress through UK approval.

Data Protection Update – Naming the End Client

This update aims to explain clearly and simply the circumstances in which an end client needs to be identified to market research participants.

Data Protection Officer

How to determine whether you need one, and if so, how to appoint one.

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