Yes, he said "Our third ambition is to encourage investment and exports
as a route to a more balanced economy for Britain.
In the Plan for Growth we publish today, we set out specific measures we
can take to help a wide range of businesses.
In life sciences, where we will radically reduce the time it takes to
get approval for the clinical trials."
The plan for growth is at
http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/2011budget_growth.pdf and there is quite a
lot on this (including condition attached to NIHR funding of NHS service
providers for trials, that they have to meet benchmarks including 70
days to recruit first patients to trial after a valid protocol received.
Kevin
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On 23/03/2011 13:03, Ted Harding wrote:
> Greetings!
> I am listening to our (UK) Chancellor of the Exchequer's
> Budget speech. He has just said that "In the Life Sciences,
> we will radically reduce the time taken to approve clinical
> trials" (or words very close to that effect -- I possibly
> paraphrase slightly).
>
> Hmmm ...
> Ted.
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