Health Secretary leads roundtable in bid to find cure for motor neurone disease

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Health Secretary has met leading academics in a bid to speed up the process of finding a cure for motor neurone disease. After the roundtable, the Health Secretary visited King’s College Hospital MND Care and Research Centre in Camberwell, London – which was the first such centre in the country. “Let’s be real – it probably won’t benefit me in my lifetime, but if I can spare anyone else having to go through this, I’ll do whatever it takes to help get that research over the line.” Mr Barclay said: “Motor neurone disease can have a devastating impact on people’s lives, and I’m working with leading researchers to accelerate research and help find a cure as soon as we can. I encourage people in England to sign up to research via the NHS App and join our ever-growing UK-wide register Be Part of Research.” Professor Lucy Chappell, CEO of the National Institute of Health and Care Research, said: “We need to work together to ensure that high quality research is funded, so breakthroughs can reach patients as quickly as possible.