Central Allocation System

The Central Allocation System (CAS) is the telephone booking service which identifies and allocates applications to an appropriate Research Ethics Committee (REC) for research that falls within one or more of the following categories:

• clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (CTIMPs). CAS can now provide an agenda identification service for all  Type 1 RECs which can review Phase 1 CTIMPs in healthy volunteers; CAS will also take bookings for NHS Phase 1 CTIMPs in healthy volunteers if requested.   Bookings for Independent Ethics Committees (IECs) must be made directly with an IEC.
• research involving medical devices;
• research involving prisoners;
• research involving adults lacking capacity;
• establishing research tissue banks;
• projects funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); and
• establishing research databases.