Hospital meets UK government’s 150-day timescale thanks to RDN support

Published February 11, 2026

Whiston Hospital, part of Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, successfully recruited the UK’s first participant for a commercial gastroenterology study in just 129 days.

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