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Research Transparency Panel Meeting Summary

Roche

30th November 2023

Data Access Proposal Request


Flatiron Health UK RWD Products

  • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

  • Breast Cancer

  • Prostate Cancer

  • Multiple Myeloma

  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

  • Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma


Attendees

Flatiron Health UK

  • Adam Manhi (chair)

  • Liv Bryan (programme manager)

Research Transparency Panel

  • Jennifer McCaffery (lay)

  • Kaeden Bunting (lay)

  • Thomas Smith (patient)

  • Sonia Patton (patient)

  • Yanrong Jiang (clinical)


Conflicts of interest

No conflicts declared by panel


Decision outcome

Approved


Summary of discussion

  • Comprehensive lay summary using understandable, plain language

  • Broad number of use cases selected and evidenced to demonstrate patient benefit

  • A concise summary of analytics approaches and rationale by use case highlighted

  • Research benefits clearly outlined for patients, but also for the UK healthcare ecosystem (e.g. cost-effectiveness assessment)

  • The panel raised several comments on other aspects of the application including:

     

    • Specific examples of the current unmet needs across tumour types would have been helpful

    • Content and language was lengthy at points and could benefit from being more concise

    • More clarity needed around the potential impact of RWD insights on specific patient cohorts and their treatments/outcomes

    • Inclusion of examples of target outputs (e.g.conferences like ESMO) where insights will be shared further

    • Full completion of the form required (i.e. the applicant had missed a verification step in the form inadvertently)

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