The Academy of Medical Sciences, Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust have published a report today summarising work underway to improve the way health research is regulated and governed in the UK and how we can take this forward effectively.
May 4, 2012 by lizphilpots
New guidance for attributing the costs of research in the NHS
April 23, 2012 by beckypurvis
A new European project to develop resources and support patients to get involved in discussions about how research works.
April 12, 2012 by beckypurvis
We have just responded to the red tape challenge with our thoughts on the challenges of regulating clinical trials of new medicines
April 10, 2012 by beckypurvis
The Technology Strategy Board and four research councils have launched a five year plan to support regenerative medicine and help translate this knowledge into treatments for patients.
November 21, 2011 by martinturner
A new leaflet explains how important patients' health records are for medical research.
November 7, 2011 by beckypurvis
Just reading Sense About Science’s latest newsletter – they’ve been involved in a channel 4 programme called Food Hospital looking at tackling claims about food and diet. Alongside the programme channel four has produced an animation on understanding clinical trials – How do drug trials work? – four minutes long and explains very simply all the phases… [Read more…]
October 31, 2011 by beckypurvis
The Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology (POST) have just produced one of their fab postnotes focused on clinical trials. If you want to get your head around what they are and why we’re talking about them in four pages, it’s worth a read. It’s a great summary of what clinical trials are and why we… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011 by beckypurvis
'EU regulations hindering drug development, say charities' - you might have spotted this in the Telegraph today. It's all about the EU directive governing clinical trials. Charities and associations funding health research across Europe have come together to make a joint statement outlining the problems with the directive we'd like to see tackled as it is revised..
June 13, 2011 by beckypurvis
The NHS Future Forum has reported today. They address some of our big concerns over health research, recommending to the government that commissioning consortia should have a duty towards research and that the new Public Health England must have independence from the Department of Health so it can still give independent advice to government on… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012 by beckypurvis
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