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Source quality clinical trial candidates at speed with Recruit, embedded in our primary care clinical system.

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    Supporting smarter site selection for your clinical trial

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    Healthcare record sharing

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    Streamlining healthcare record sharing to accelerate clinical trial recruitment

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    Instant, compliant access to UK primary care data to accelerate your research.

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Unlocking the potential of primary care

Clinical trials offer vital opportunities to improve healthcare. But their success hinges on one crucial factor — recruitment. Without adequate numbers of participants, clinical trials can’t proceed, leading to delays in the development of new treatments and therapies.

As custodians of rich, coded, cradle-to-grave patient data, primary care has huge potential to transform clinical trial recruitment, and support research that is representative of, and beneficial to the whole of the nation.

Identify trial candidates with precision

As the leading clinical system supplier for primary care in the UK, we're ideally placed to connect primary care teams and clinical researchers using innovative technology. Recruit is enabling GP practice teams to support fast, efficient and diverse patient recruitment for clinical trials with ease from within their clinical system. 

Prebuilt complex searches against trusted electronic health record (EHR) data enable primary care teams to surface patients from their area who meet your eligibility criteria, identifying high-quality candidates earlier in the recruitment process. In just a few clicks, GP practices can invite candidates to register their interest, and inbuilt renumeration compensates them for their time. Recruit is fast and flexible, with rapid set-up, adjustable cohorts and scalable engagement programmes to match screening capacity.

Explore more with Recruit

Recruit goes beyond patient identification. Discover how our feasibility service helps you select the right sites before your study begins, and how healthcare record sharing streamlines enrolment and supports faster, more informed recruitment.

Further reading

Find out more about our clinical trial recruitment solution, explore how we're supporting life sciences, pharma and academia, and check out our case finding tool for proactive patient care. 
 

Exploring primary care data’s role in research and recruitment

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Key benefits

  • Recruit from a wide and diverse patient population via our extensive GP network.
  • Identify high quality candidates using complex searches against rich, coded patient health data.
  • Fast and flexible with quick setup, adjustable cohorts and scalable engagement programmes to match screening capacity.
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