Improving Patient Recruitment into 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

Clinical trials create benefits for both the NHS, such as developing more effective treatments,³ and patients. Patients participating in industry clinical trials can benefit from receiving early access to new and innovative treatments. For those patients with conditions where there are no or limited standard treatments available, trials may be their only treatment option.²

In this webinar, Dr Thomas Brown presents on the points to consider when developing a respiratory clinical trial and the associated challenges when having patient recruitment in centre of the study design. He also lays focus on strategies to effectively recruit patients during the study. Please also consider watching the on-demand video “How Best to Manage Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials” by Ms Benedicta Marshall-Andrew for a Rare Disease 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 England. Embedding research in the NHS. https://www.england.nhs.uk/aac/what-we-do/embedding-research-in-the-nhs/

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• Dr Thomas Brown

  Consultant Respiratory Physician and Deputy Director of Research

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  Dr Thomas Brown

  Consultant Respiratory Physician and Deputy Director of Research Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

  Roles and Location
  Deputy Director of Research, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
  Consultant Respiratory Physician and Portsmouth Severe Asthma Service Lead
  Deputy Programme Director (Clinical) for King’s College London MBBS in partnership with the University of Portsmouth
  Honorary Reader, University of Portsmouth

  Education
  MBChB University of Sheffield, PhD University of Portsmouth

  Research
  Asthma phenotypes and novel diagnostic modalities in airways disease

  Memberships
  Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians