Clinical Trials: Females
(asked on 10th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women have been enrolled in (a) cancer, (b) stroke and (c) dementia clinical trials in each year since 2017.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 12th May 2022
Clinical trials are funded by a range of public, charity and commercial organisations, including by the Department, via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Information on the sex of patients enrolled in NIHR-funded clinical trials is not currently collected centrally. However, the forthcoming Women’s Health Strategy aims to ensure that data collected through research improves women’s health outcomes.