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UK’s Revamped Clinical Trials Framework To Offer Faster Application Review Timelines Than EU

Changes Represent Biggest Overhaul In UK Clinical Trials Regulation In Over 20 Years

 
• By Vibha Sharma

The UK has finalized plans for delivering what it believes will be a stable and streamlined clinical trials framework following its departure from the EU. Transparency, patient involvement and diversity are high on the agenda.

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The UK government has announced much-awaited reforms to its clinical trials framework, explaining how several existing provisions will be soon replaced with new legislation or guidance. The changes, the government says, will make it faster and easier to gain approval and to run clinical trials in the country.

Under the new framework, the clinical trials application processes will be more proportionate, streamlined and flexible, without compromising on safety....

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