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Question reference: S6W-36676

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 April 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have accessed cancer drug trials in each NHS board area in each year since 1999.

Directly comparable data is available from Financial Year 2014-2015 onwards corresponding to the introduction of the EDGE clinical research management system across the territorial NHS Boards and this data has been provided in the table below.

Patient recruitment figures by Financial Year are provided for 11/14 territorial NHS Boards. NHS Orkney and NHS Shetland patients are routinely treated as part of the NHS Grampian service and patients from these boards are included in the NHS Grampian recruitment figures below. A similar arrangement exists between NHS Western Isles and NHS Highland and is reflected in the recruitment figures below.

Accessed has been interpreted as patients who have been consented and recruited into a trial.

Drug trials has been interpreted as a Clinical Trial of an Investigative Medicinal Product as defined in the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) regulations 2004.

	FY14-15	FY15-16	FY16-17	FY17-18	FY18-19	FY19-20	FY20-21	FY21-22	FY22-23	FY23-24	FY24-25
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	26	15	14	14	9	15	1	8	4	1	4
NHS Borders	2	10	3	8	5	7	7	4	0	11	14
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	5	3	1	7	3	0	1	12	18	19	9
NHS Fife	11	14	13	29	28	25	6	12	4	10	15
NHS Forth Valley	21	21	28	23	34	8	3	10	2	30	10
NHS GGC	472	419	418	451	451	424	210	303	271	301	272
NHS Grampian	118	104	88	68	93	78	38	69	84	74	38
NHS Highland	38	40	67	71	73	63	22	60	40	5	8
NHS Lanarkshire	46	22	19	36	39	15	2	5	8	23	20
NHS Lothian	164	174	238	317	329	291	167	242	133	145	139
NHS Tayside	64	42	57	51	57	39	23	63	34	33	29