Clinical trials recruitment setup timeliness rate
United Kingdom · as of 8 Sep 2026
Clinical trials recruitment setup timeliness rate in United Kingdom stood at 58% as of 8 September 2026 (ABPI).
- Publisher
- ABPI
- Authority tier
- T2 National
- Locator
- UK areas of unrealised potential
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The gap has moved later in the process: only 58 per cent of industry trials opened to recruitment within 60 days of approval and recruitment fell by 25 per cent between 2022/23 and 2024/25, while the new network of 35 research delivery centres is outperforming the wider health system.
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- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. (2026). Green shoots for UK pharma investment, but delivery will decide whether they take root. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.abpi.org.uk/media/news/2026/august/green-shoots-for-uk-pharma-investment-but-delivery-will-decide-whether-they-take-root/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_344J66GYJVV333X60WT9G7V99G
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- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. "Green shoots for UK pharma investment, but delivery will decide whether they take root." 2026, https://www.abpi.org.uk/media/news/2026/august/green-shoots-for-uk-pharma-investment-but-delivery-will-decide-whether-they-take-root/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_344J66GYJVV333X60WT9G7V99G.
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- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. "Green shoots for UK pharma investment, but delivery will decide whether they take root." 2026. https://www.abpi.org.uk/media/news/2026/august/green-shoots-for-uk-pharma-investment-but-delivery-will-decide-whether-they-take-root/. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_344J66GYJVV333X60WT9G7V99G.
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- @misc{abpi2026clinicalg7v99g, author = {{Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry}}, title = {Green shoots for UK pharma investment, but delivery will decide whether they take root}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_344J66GYJVV333X60WT9G7V99G}, note = {Original source: https://www.abpi.org.uk/media/news/2026/august/green-shoots-for-uk-pharma-investment-but-delivery-will-decide-whether-they-take-root/. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }
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- Publisher
- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National Official
- Report
- Green shoots for UK pharma investment, but delivery will decide whether they take root
- Type
- Press release
- Published
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- Locator
- UK areas of unrealised potential
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
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Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_344J66GYJVV333X60WT9G7V99G