Radiotherapy: Clinical Trials

(asked on 27th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is no disruption to the quality assurance of radiotherapy clinical trials and the patients who have enrolled in those trials after the Secure File Transfer System is discontinued after 31 March 2019.


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Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 4th March 2019

To ensure that there is no disruption to the quality assurance of radiotherapy clinical trials, or other trials using the Secure File Transfer Service (SFTS), NHS Digital has identified alternative platforms. These alternatives are the Messaging Exchange for Social Care and Health, the Data Landing Platform and the Strategic Data Collection Service.

NHS Digital is advising users on the most suitable alternative service for their needs and supporting transition. NHS Digital is also looking into the feasibility of extending SFTS to 31 May 2019 to give users additional time to transfer to one of the alternative platforms.

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