The province is acting on early health authority review findings by moving administrative and corporate services into a new provincial entity.

The RAPP team has been actively advancing multiple workstreams, aiming on bringing the project closer to its goal of streamlining research approvals and increasing timeliness of health research in BC.

As Phase 2 moves forward, the working groups for the privacy, operational approvals and contracts and agreements workstreams are being reinstated to ensure the project deliverables remain collaborative and informed.

As work continues to progress, RAPP is reinstating working groups specific to individual workstreams to advance goals and plans for Phase 2 deliverables.

RAPP, with its health authority partners, is closely following national initiatives and is ready to leverage their successes where possible.

The RAPP team remains well-positioned to advance this important project, and planning for the next phase is underway.

The RAPP team is set to complete the Initial Deliverables by workstream to support future advancements and changes to British Columbia’s research approval process.

As 2024 ends, we wanted to highlight key developments that have occurred this year.

November is a busy month for Research Approvals Processes Project (RAPP) engagement activities.

The project is now conducting personas and pain points workshops to identify best practices and improvements for future state modelling.

Data Access enables a unified process for research and analysis within secure environment across Health Authorities.

The RAPP team employs process mapping to understand and improve research approval processes across BC’s health authorities.

RAPP has received support from the Leadership Council, a council of Health Authority Chief Executive Officers and Ministry of Health leadership.

The Research Approval Processes Project (RAPP) is set to make improvements to the operational approval application process for research studies. Operational Approval, also known as an Operational Review, holds a…