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NIHR Diabetes Research Network: recruitment, recruitment, recruitment

Since its inception in 2005, the Diabetes Research Network of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) has used the NHS as the engine to drive clinical research and has helped to recruit more than 200 000 patients into clinical trials and studies being carried out in England. In itself this sounds like an impressive statistic. However, considering that more than one million interactions between patients and the NHS occur every day, the huge scope for expansion and more global involvement becomes apparent.1 It is often said that there are three common problems with clinical trials – recruitment, recruitment and recruitment. So, with the clinical research network structure now firmly embedded across the country, how can we improve on the numbers of people consenting to take part in a trial?