Media, comms & campaigns consultant. Investigating the ethics of a new fundraising concept for medical trials. See BMJ paper below #T1D @dominicnutt.bsky.social
'Every year, promising medical trials fail to happen – not because the science is flawed, or because the regulators object, but because no one will pay for them.
'So what’s the answer?
'One innovative idea is to let patients with the means to do so pay for the entire trial in return for a place on it – assuming they meet the medical inclusion criteria.
'Other patients would then join the same trial for free, with all participants receiving the same treatment and all results scrutinised in the usual, rigorous scientific way.'
⚕️💊@DominicNutt on how to change the way we fund life-saving medical trials👇
Alexander Masters and I were interviewed by the brilliant @cathynewman on Times Radio about our new charity (which we’re in the process of setting up) to allow patients to fund their own medical trials. #PatientPoweredResearch
I’ve been working in my spare time on a way to save unfunded but promising medical research. It’s in the Guardian today. We need a funder though. https://t.co/gaHNnEVLjm
@justinworsley Hi, Justin. Thank you. Not directly. But we’re broadly barking up similar trees. Happy to explain it on a call if you like? Good to catch up anyways…
Andrew Norfolk, the retired reporter who uncovered the grooming scandal in Rotherham, has spoken to @thetimes to “put the record straight” about Elon Musk’s wild claims about the PM's time as director of public prosecutions.
“It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible. That happened and there was a huge increase in convictions.”
He also told @TheNewsAgents: "These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is shameful".
Chairman of @marksandspencer Archie Norman @therealarchie tells me on @TimesRadio that Brexit means they've had to hire a warehouse just to store the paperwork needed to export to the Republic of Ireland….
Kemi Badenoch uses first PMQs to question Keir Starmer on Trump/ US r'ship.
She asks him to invite new US pres to address HoC on next visit to UK - accusing Labour of "playing student politics" after MPs objected last time.
PM: "I think the leader of the opposition is giving a masterclass of student politics".
As the dust settles after yesterday's reforming #budget2024, it's time to look at what the reforms to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) from Inheritance Tax (IHT) actually mean, instead of the toys out of the pram reaction from a section of the farming community. A short 🧵 1/7