Evening and weekend trial clinics for working-age patients
Trial visits happen on weekdays during working hours, which excludes many people with jobs or caring duties. Running research clinics in the evening and at weekends is a simple test of whether that matters.
Research units offer at least one evening and one weekend session per week for trial visits, infusions and sampling, with protocol windows written to permit it. Staff costs are covered by the trial budget. The effect on enrolment by age, employment and ethnicity is measured against usual hours.
- Trials enrol too few, too slowly · Fewer than one in ten adults with cancer joins a trial. Trials close for lack of patients, not lack of ideas.
- Trials do not represent the people who get cancer · Older, Black, Hispanic, Asian, rural, poor and multimorbid patients are under-represented, so results may not apply to them.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- IdeaPay trial participants for their time, not only their expenses
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- IdeaTravel, lodging and meals reimbursed as a standard line in every trial budget
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
- IdeaCommunity health workers and trusted local organisations paid to recruit for trials
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
- IdeaAt least a third of pivotal-trial sites in community and rural settings
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
- IdeaRemove blanket exclusions for mental illness and dementia; support consent instead
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
- IdeaMobile research units bring trial visits to rural towns
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
- IdeaDrop the 'must speak English' rule: translated consent and questionnaires as standard
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.
- IdeaLay trial navigators funded per centre, evaluated in a randomised trial
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Trials enrol too few, too slowly.