Fig. 1From: The high costs of getting ethical and site-specific approvals for multi-centre researchApplication times by calendar date for the REACH Trial for the 12 hospitals (August 2015 to July 2016). One hospital was withdrawn. Two hospitals (7 and 10) did not need site-specific approval, one because the details were covered in the ethics forms and the other simply did not require a SSA. One ethics approval covered two sitesBack to article page