questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with (a) NHS England and (b) the National Institute for Health and Care Research on (i) expanding the number of recruiting sites for and (ii) including James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough in the MND-SMART trial.
answerText: Decisions on site selection for clinical trials rest with the study sponsor, shaped by the design and requirements of the trial.No discussions about the MND-SMART trial have been held with the Department. However, while we are not directly involved in the...
heading: Motor Neurone Disease: Research