Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department it taking steps to improve access to industry clinical trials amongst patients with glioblastoma.

In March 2021 the Government published ‘Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery’ setting out ambitions to reform clinical research delivery in the United Kingdom. This sets out how we will improve access to clinical trials in all areas, including glioblastoma. This will include enhancing the use of data to support recruitment and improving processes to make study set-up and delivery faster, more efficient and more innovative, so that clinical research participation is more accessible than ever.

Lord James O’Shaughnessy has also been commissioned to independently review commercial clinical trials to provide recommendations that will improve access to them. We expect this will be published in the coming weeks.