Clinical Trials

(asked on 17th November 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Berger Portrait
Baroness Berger
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were recruited to participate in a phase (a) I, (b) II, (c) III and (d) IV clinical trial in each of the last five years.

Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 20th November 2014

Data is not available on the total number of patients recruited to participate in a clinical trial. Recruitment in England to clinical trials hosted by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN), and total recruitment in England to all trials and other well-designed studies hosted by the CRN is shown in the following table.

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

Phase I

70

85

151

5,363

931

Phase I/II

283

305

808

185

279

Phase II

3,874

2,268

2,913

3,306

3,234

Phase II/III

2,729

2,578

3,041

2,517

3,237

Phase III

31,363

33,027

33,812

35,140

28,595

Phase IV

11,077

10,876

8,647

9,944

23,780

Total (trials)

49,396

49,139

49,372

56,455

60,056

All trials and studies

454,138

564,698

595,540

637,974

604,216

Recruitment in England to clinical trials hosted by NIHR-designated infrastructure for experimental medicine including NIHR biomedical research centres, NIHR biomedical research units, and NIHR clinical research facilities for experimental medicine (from 2012-13 onwards), is shown in the following table.

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

Phase 0

0

530

1,275

255

1,046

Phase I

2,185

2,178

2,471

2,827

4,390

Phase II

5,423

3,923

3,169

8,467

7,893

Phase III

5,003

5,228

7,276

8,930

n/a

Phase IV

2,425

23,519

1,843

3,135

n/a

Total trials

15,037

35,378

16,034

23,614

n/a

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