How Best to Manage Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials
During 2022/23, over 100 people in England were recruited every hour to take part in health and care research.1 Despite improvement in uptake post-pandemic, capacity constraints across the UK’s clinical research workforce, facilities, and infrastructure continue to limit patients’ access to industry clinical trials and their benefits.2
Patients should be informed and recruited into clinical trials in a way for them to receive maximum benefit, and as a sign of good clinical practice.
Developing a clinical trial with the complete patient experience in mind can help deliver on wider aims to improve research as a whole in the UK, such as increasing the diversity of those who take part in said research.3
In this webinar, Benedicta Marshall-Andrew, a clinical trial support lead in the area of Rare Diseases, discusses how to involve patients throughout different stages of the clinical trial process including logistics on retaining patients.
Please also consider watching the on-demand “Improving Patient Recruitment into Clinical Trials” by Dr Thomas Brown for a Respiratory perspective on this topic area.
References
1. National Institute for Health and Care Research. Annual Statistics. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-research-performance/annual-statistics.htm#:~:text=New%20data%20from%20the%20NIHR,10%20and%20a%20half%20times.
2. Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry. Getting back on track: Restoring the UK’s global position in industry clinical trials. Nov 2023. https://www.abpi.org.uk/media/mcbnhp2m/abpi_clinical_trials_position_paper_20231116.pdf
3. NHS Health Research Authority. Increasing the diversity of people taking part in research. March 2024. https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/best-practice/increasing-diversity-people-taking-part-research/
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Benedicta Marshall-Andrew
Head of the Clinical Trial Support Team