Lord James O’Shaughnessy, a former UK health minister and leader of a review into the country’s poorly performing commercial clinical trial sector, told attendees of the LifeArc Translational Science Summit on 23 April that a key contributor to the problem was the “performance breakdown of the MHRA,” which he said was “pretty shocking” at the time of the review, 18 months ago.
The UK saw a 44% decline in the number of UK patients recruited to commercial clinical trials between 2017 and...