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NH5 T r u s t

Ms Nikki Wood,

Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University College London, 1-19Torrington Place, London WC1E

Our Ref: W U02/1/02

West London Mental Health NHS Trust

Uxbridge Road, Southall Middlesex UB1 3EU

10‘h May 2002

Dear Ms Wood,

Protocol: Autobiographical Memory Functioning and P sychosis.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you. Your submission was circulated to all members of the Ethics Committee on 19“’ April 2002 and I am pleased to report that no ethical concerns were declared. I am therefore happy to confirm the Committee’s approval for your project to proceed.

May I take this opportunity to remind you of this Committee's Standard Operating Procedures:

□ The need to comply, throughout the conduct of the study, with good clinical research practice standards; □ To enable the Committee to receive feedback of research approved, you are requested to provide six-

monthly reviews. Where this is not provided, the Committee reserve the right to suspend approval of the protocol;

□ The results of the research should be sent to the Chairman of the Committee, if necessary in draft form, pending a copy of the completed final report/publication, which will be made available in the Medical Library; □ Further research projects submitted to the Ethical Committee by researchers who fail to comply with these

conditions will not be approved;

□ If there are any further changes to the Protocol, these must be notified to the Committee for approval. May I take this opportunity to wish you well in your study.

nth kind regards.

Yours Sincerely,

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North Central London C o m m u n i t y Research Co nso rt iu m Dr Paul Fox R e s e a r c h & D e v e l o p m e n t Unit 3'^ Floor W e s t Wing St P a n e r a s Hospital London NW1 OPE E-mail P aul F o x @ c a m d e n p c t nhs.uk P h o n e 0 2 0 7 5 3 0 5 3 7 5 Fa x 0 2 0 7 5 3 0 3 2 3 5 31March 2 0 0 3 Miss Nikki Wo o d D e a r Mi s s Wo o d LREC Ref: 0 2 / 1 5 1

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