Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what further measures she will take to raise awareness of the importance of (a) improving the clinical research infrastructure in the UK; and (b) increasing clinical trial participation in relation to the development of new treatments for dementia.

‘Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery’, published in March 2021, sets out the ambition to create people-centred, pro-innovation and digitally enabled clinical research infrastructure. ‘The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery: 2022 to 2025 implementation plan’, published on 30 June 2022, summarises the actions we will take over the next three years.

The platform Join Dementia Research, funded and delivered by the Departmentally funded National Institute for Health and Care Research with Alzheimer’s Society, Alzheimer Scotland and Alzheimer’s Research UK, allows people to register an interest in dementia research and be matched to trials. This aims to improve participation and diversity in dementia research.