Question reference: S6W-12064
- Date lodged: 10 November 2022
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 November 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many ongoing clinical trials there are in the NHS Research Scotland research area portfolio of (a) stroke, (b) cancer, (c) cardiovascular, (d) diabetes and (e) neuroprogressive and dementia.
Answer
According to the most recent year for which there is complete data, April 2021 to March 2022, a total of 792 studies were active and open to recruitment across these portfolio areas. Details for each portfolio area are indexed in the following table.
Table 1. NRS studies active between April 2021 to March 2022.
Cancer | Cardio | Diabetes | NPD | Stroke | Total | |
Basic science | 38 | 29 | 7 | 20 | 8 | 102 |
Combined | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
CTIMP | 339 | 34 | 13 | 29 | 16 | 431 |
Data | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 31 |
Device | 2 | 21 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 37 |
Other | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 |
Other/randomised CT | 32 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 73 |
Qualitative | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
Questionnaires | 20 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 40 |
Tissue Samples | 33 | 8 | 4 | 45 | ||
Total | 495 | 132 | 41 | 84 | 40 | 792 |
Bold type rows represent trials .
Normal typerows represent observational studies .