Omitted from that description of its plans was the fact it had already received a favorable ethical opinion from an NHS Health Research Authority research ethics committee to run a two-year AI research study on the same underlying NHS patient data.
For this reason, it was not necessary to have R&D approval from the consortium or a favourable ethical opinion from an NHS research ethics committee.
The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and received expedited favourable ethical opinion from the Fife and Forth Valley Ethics Committee and NHS R + D approvals.
The National Research Ethics Service NRESS) advised that EPIC did not require NRES ethics approval; we therefore sought and obtained a favourable ethical opinion from the University of Liverpool Research Ethics Committee (Ref: RETH000489).
A favourable ethical opinion was given by the NHS East Midlands Nottingham 1 research ethics committee.
DeepMind and the Royal Free both claim that, despite receiving a favorable ethical opinion on the AI research application in November 2015 from the NHS ethics committee, additional approvals would have been required before the AI research could have gone ahead.
The weight of legal and ethical opinion wants it.
Whether a gay journalist writing for the Gawker media blog Valleywag should have published a positive item stating Thiel was gay back in 2007, when he was only out to family, friends and colleagues, is a matter of ethical opinion.
This study was given a favourable ethical opinion by Oxfordshire REC B on 17 June 2008.
The study was given a favourable ethical opinion by the National Research Ethics Committee West Midlands.
A favourable ethical opinion was obtained from the Gateshead Local Research Ethics Committee for this study.
