UK regulatory overhaul aims to make publication of clinical trial results a legal requirement

"The UK’s medicines regulator is planning to make the registration of clinical trial results and publication of their results a legal requirement as part of a wider overhaul of UK clinical trial regulation.

Regulator MHRA proposes to enshrine three transparency requirements in law:

• Trials must be registered

• Trial results must be made public within 12 months of trial end

• Trial participants must be informed of trial results..."