{"id":30406,"date":"2025-08-26T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=30406"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:45:30","slug":"transforming-uk-clinical-research-august-2025-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2025\/08\/26\/transforming-uk-clinical-research-august-2025-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming UK Clinical Research \u2013 August 2025 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK government\u2019s August 4, 2025 update on clinical research makes notable progress in streamlining trial delivery via the UK Clinical Research Delivery (UKCRD) programme. Major highlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A bold target to reduce clinical trial setup times to <strong>150 days or less<\/strong>, enabled by digitalisation, reduced bureaucracy, and standard contracts. Phase 1 deliverables were released in April 2025 and phase 2 in June 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>VPAG investment programme<\/strong> is enabling faster commercial trial delivery by establishing new Commercial Research Delivery Centres across the UK.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A shift toward a <strong>\u201cright research, right setting\u201d<\/strong> model aims to move more studies into primary and community care, making research more accessible locally.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The \u2018proactive portfolio management\u2019 approach is being adopted to enhance collaboration between NIHR and industry, including SMEs, with oversight via an Industry Advisory Group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The reforms build on previous commitments, with streamlined costing and contracting frameworks already completed across NHS England and devolved systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full update from the Department of Health and Social Care here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/transforming-the-uk-clinical-research-system-august-2025-update\/transforming-the-uk-clinical-research-system-august-2025-update\">Transforming the UK clinical research system: August 2025 update &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government\u2019s August 4, 2025 update on clinical research makes notable progress in streamlining trial delivery via the UK Clinical Research Delivery (UKCRD) programme. Major highlights include: Read the full update from the Department of Health and Social Care here: Transforming the UK clinical research system: August 2025 update &#8211; GOV.UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,86,91,156,223,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-guidelines","category-evidence-based-practice","category-finding-the-evidence","category-nhs-evidence","category-research","category-social-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30407,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406\/revisions\/30407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}