The guidance will help ensure research is designed to include people who could be impacted by the findings, and that people underserved by research are not overlooked.  

We hope that this will help increase the diversity of people taking part in clinical trials and clinical investigations. 

This is part of our wider work with the MHRA to update the UK’s clinical trials regulations.

We have developed a set of questions and supporting guidance for researchers to consider when they design clinical trials and clinical investigations. The answers to these questions will form the basis of an Inclusion and Diversity Plan. 

Researchers can submit this plan as part of their application to Research Ethics Committees (RECs), who will use the information in the plan as part of their overall review of the application.

The questions and supporting guidance were developed alongside researchers, sponsors, REC members and public contributors.

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