Welcome to the website of the Health and Disability Ethics Committees (HDECs)
The meeting schedule for 2026 is now available.
Please note 27 November 2025 is the final agenda preparation for the 09 December meeting and an additional meeting for 11 December. Any full-review pathway applications received after this date or once these meetings have reached capacity will not be reviewed until 2026.
An update has been provided to communicate expected turnaround times moving forward.
Our new system for submissions to the HDEC, the Ethics Review Manager (Ethics RM), has replaced Online Forms. Visit Ethics RM(external link) to access it.
An Ethics RM user manual is available
For more information about Ethics RM please see the Ethics Review Manager page.
