Key definitions from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) are listed:
Clinical Trial: an experiment to compare the effects of two or more medicines, treatments, or procedures. ‘Clinical trial’ is an umbrella term for a variety of different experiments using different methods.
Equality: ensuring that everyone is given equal access to resources and opportunities to use their skills and talents. Taking a systems approach to what we do and how we do it and identifying and removing long standing, structural barriers to success.
Equity: trying to understand and give people what they need to achieve their potential; promoting notions of fairness, justice, entitlements, and rights.
Diversity: being reflective of the wider community. Having a diverse community, with people from a broad range of backgrounds represented in all areas and at all levels.
Inclusion: an approach where groups or individuals with different backgrounds are welcomed, culturally and socially accepted, and treated equally. Engaging with each person as an individual. A sense of belonging that is respectful of people for who they are.
Intersectionality: A framework that acknowledges that all people have unique experiences of discrimination and disadvantage exacerbated by the overlap of multiple social identities.
Public members: include patients, potential patients, carers, and people who use health and social care services as well as people from organisations that represent people who use services.
Research: discovering new knowledge that could lead to changes in treatments, policies, or care.
