Clinical Trials
(asked on 6th September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS patients participated in a clinical trial in each of the last five years.
The infrastructure provided by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) supports the set-up and timely delivery of commercial and non-commercial studies in the National Health Service in England.
The information is not held in the format requested. The following table shows the number of people participating in research studies, rather than NHS patients participating in clinical trials.
NIHR CRN has recruited a total of 3,220,237 participants (which will include NHS patients and members of the general population) to portfolio studies over the last five years.
Financial Year (FY) 2013/14 | FY 2014/15 | FY 2015/16 | FY 2016/17 | FY 2017/18 | Total |
604,216 | 618,453 | 605,596 | 666,639 | 725,333 | 3,220,237 |
It should be noted that this is for all research and not just clinical trials and does not include clinical trials undertaken outside of the NIHR CRN.