Question follow-through · 39837
Cancer: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to involve young cancer patients in discussions about clinical trial designs.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to involve young cancer patients in discussions about clinical trial designs.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
Patient and public involvement and engagement in research is an essential part of delivering world-class clinical trials, improving the accessibility of health and care studies, and increasing recruitment rates and retention of participants.The Department...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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