We need your help to understand how patients can join clinical trials that are not performed in your country but in other European countries.
We are reaching out on behalf of the EFGCP-EFPIA Cross-Border (EU-X-CT) Initiative that aims to bring together reliable and accessible information regarding cost coverage, liability insurance, legal, regulatory, ethical as well as operational aspects on conditions and options for patients’ cross-border access to clinical trials.
Participation in a clinical trial is an important element of healthcare, especially for patients with life-threatening and/or rare diseases for whom a medicinal product under investigation might be the only therapeutic option.
While clinical trials are conducted in line with existing legislations such as the European Regulation [(EU) No 536/2014] on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, there is no legal European framework that defines the conditions for accessing clinical trials in another European country. This is why there is need for reliable and accessible information to optimise cross-border access to clinical trials.
Therefore, we would greatly appreciate your support of this Initiative by providing detailed answers to the questions below about your experience with coverage of healthcare costs for trial participants who participated in a clinical trial outside your country, and where these costs were NOT covered by the trial sponsor.
Some of the following questions are addressed to a particular stakeholder group. If you don’t belong to this group, please tick “Not Applicable”.
The first questionnaire has a general scope and is aimed at academia, not-for-profit organizations, patient organizations, health insurance companies, hospital administrators, clinical investigators.
The second questionnaire for stakeholders involved in handling the costs for patients from another country that participate in a Clinical Trial in your country.
The third questionnaire is for sponsors of a Clinical Trial (pharmaceutical industry, medical device industry, academia, sponsor-investigator).
We would appreciate it if you allowed us to contact you for an interview in case we would need further details/information from you.