The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has published new data from the first six months of the NCVR process.
The NCVR process was launched in October 2022 and is the UK’s standardised, national approach to costing and contracting for commercial contract research.
The data shows that, on average, commercial studies are achieving study set-up milestones 95 days quicker.
The initial analysis is based on six studies that have completed all three defined phases of set-up activities with 12 sites.
These were compared to 64 studies across 196 study sites in the six months before the new process started. You can read the full analysis of the data on the NIHR website.
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