About Clinical Trials
What is a clinical trial?
A clinical trial compares the effects of one treatment with another. It may involve patients with a particular disease or condition, healthy people, or both. Trials are designed differently depending on what is being researched.
Very often, the clinical trial takes place as part of the treatment and care that you receive at your GP surgery, at hospital or in other NHS services.
e that you may be able to take part in. To learn more about what a clinical trial is please follow the link here.
Why should I participate in a clinical trial?
People can benefit from taking part in clinical research trials in different ways:
Help to advance scientific and clinical knowledge about our health and wellbeing
the chance to test a new treatment at an early stage
work with research experts who have a great deal of knowledge of the disease and have your progress regularly monitored
help people who will have your disease in the future, by supporting the development of new and more effective treatments, therapies or medicines
learn about your health and about clinical research in general
Before deciding whether taking part in a clinical research trial is right for you, you should consider all of the information available to you from the research teams. They will explain how the trial will work, any risks or side-effects that you may experience and also the benefits of the treatments being tested. They will also explain any downsides to taking part, for example that the new treatment they are testing could be less effective than the treatment you are already receiving. It is always your choice if you want to participate on a clinical trial.