NIHR launches UK-wide recruitment drive for clinical trials
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has launched a UK-wide recruitment drive for clinical trials.
Adults across the UK are being urged to register, with underrepresented groups – including young people and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds – particularly encouraged to sign up to ‘Be Part of Research’. Find out more here: https://bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk/join
Alongside this launch, the UK Government has announced – as part of their 10-year health plan for England – that NHS App users will be able to browse and sign up to clinical trials. In the future, the NHS App will automatically match patients with studies based on their health data and interests, and send alerts via smartphone notifications.
Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, says:
“The NHS App will become the digital front door to the NHS, and enable all of us as citizens to play our part in developing the medicines of the future. The British people showed they were willing to be part of finding the vaccine for COVID, so why not do it again to cure cancer and dementia?”
Find out more from the UK Government here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/unprecedented-boost-for-clinical-trials-under-10-year-health-plan