Lord Turnberg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Turnberg on 2016-03-16.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have assessed the plans of NHS England for provision of mandated research in the NHS.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The Department of Health formally holds NHS England to account on its delivery against the research objective in the NHS Mandate, a process which will be rolled forward during 2016/7.

Progress has been made in the areas of participation of National Health Service organisations in research, with 98% of NHS trusts recruited into National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network Portfolio studies during the course of 2014/15, and 78% of NHS trusts recruiting to commercial contract studies in the same year. In addition, recruitment of participants into such studies increased in 2014/15 compared to the previous year to 618,453 participants. Recruitment into commercial contract studies is at an all-time high, with 34,885 participants in 2014/15; a 35% increase from 2013/14.