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Setting up non-commercial clinical trials takes too long in the UK: findings from a prospective study

Allan Hackshaw Deputy Director  ¹ Hannah Farrant Trial Coordinator  ² Sue Bulley R&D Clinical Trials Manager  ³ Michael J Seckl Trial Principal Investigator  ⁴   Jonathan A Ledermann Director  ⁵

¹ Cancer Research UK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre, University College London 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TJ
² Cancer Research UK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre, University College London 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TJ
³ Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Yeovil, Somerset BA21 4AT
⁴ Lung Cancer Research Group, Hammersmith Hospitals Campus of Imperial College London Ducane Rd, London W12 ONN
⁵ Cancer Research UK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre, University College London 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TJ

View larger version (13K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. The number of months taken to obtain LREC approval (site-specific assessment) in centres where approval has been given or where we were still waiting for a response (as of 27 March 2008)

 

View larger version (16K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. The number of months taken to obtain R&D approval, in centres where approval has been given or where we were still waiting for a response (as of 27 March 2008)

 

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 3. The number of months taken to get LREC and R&D approvals and a signed CTSA in 29 centres in which we had all three (as of 27 March 2008)

 

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