Ireland Risks Falling Behind: Urgent Action Needed to Boost Clinical Trials

A new report shows that Ireland attracted fewer industry-sponsored interventional clinical trials than both Finland and Denmark between 2014 and 2023, despite all three countries having a similar population size and economic wealth. 

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Key players active in Ireland’s clinical trials arena want the government to come up with a national strategy to stop the continuing decline of industry sponsored interventional trials in the country, which currently lags behind its European peers in attracting trial sponsors.

Calls for reforming Ireland’s clinical trial processes were made at a webinar organized on 11 June by the Irish Pharmaceutical...

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