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What

VCTC is a UK based patient centric clinical trial site that eliminates the burden of participation and facilitates the rapid recruitment of patients. Our pioneering processes take clinical trials to our patients, providing access to all, generating diversity and quality data through a compassionate, expedited virtual clinical trial process.

At our core we enhance the clinical trial experience for participants and sponsors leading to expedited timelines, reduced cost and ultimately bringing products to market quicker.

This is, and always will be, a core part of VCTC.

Services

Strategic Trial Design

Consulting and medical writing support to optimise your trial design to ensure it can be delivered safely in a location suitable the participant.

Virtual Clinical Study Investigators

Patient safety is everything to us. Our UK registered virtual Principal Investigators and sub-investigator teams are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, dedicated to the safety of our trial participants.

Visit Management Team

Virtual and Decentralized can be logistically complex, and our expert Visit Management Team ensures that home visits occur on time, every time.

In-Home Trial Visits

Supported by healthcare professionals, clinical research experts, and digital elements, we undertake everything from simple blood draws through to complex IMP administration in the comfort and security of the patient’s own home or a location of their choice

Digital Solutions

We offer eSource, eConsent and ePRO which make our trials more flexible, engaging, improve data quality and allow our team to spend more time engaging with participants, person-to-person.

Central Pharmacy and Drug Depot

Providing QP release, labelling, secondary packaging with temperature monitored, controlled storage, accountability, reconciliation, and destruction

Direct-to-participant IP shipping

We ship IMP 24*7, so that irrespective of the clinical trial design or the participants location we ensure that drug will be delivered on time for the participants in-home trial visit.

Patient Recruitment

We recruit participants into trials quicker as we can access any participant in the UK irrespective of their location. Highly targeted multi-channel recruitment strategies to engage with communities, the public and patient groups to raise awareness of your trial and recruit participants rapidly.

Participant Facing Materials

Developing and designing highly relevant, informative and engaging patient materials to help drive study success. Designed with patients, for patients.

Who?

Our Team

Built on decades of leading drug development experience, our team are committed to making clinical trials more accessible for participants everywhere.

Dr. Helen Shaw

Co-Founder

Dan Henley

Co-Founder

Teresa Hawkins

Head of Site Operations

Dr. Ravikumar Ravindran

Virtual Principle Investigator

Dr Oliver Wadsworth

Virtual Investigator

Dr Christopher Banerji

Virtual Investigator

Dr Eleni Palaiomicha

Virtual Investigator

Dr Rosia Shahi

Virtual Investigator

Dr Mohammed Abu Fayed

Virtual Investigator

Heather Dunn

Clinical Trial Coordinator

Why

Our patient centric clinical studies have an opportunity to change the drug development landscape forever.

Faster start up timelines

Streamlined processes and an agile workforce means we can be up and running rapidly.

Rapid participant enrolment

Proven enrolment strategies to identify patients anywhere in the UK

Significantly improved participant retention

Designing trials to fit around the lives of our participants

Flexible solutions delivered at home, or a location and time convenient to participants

Proven enrolment strategies to identify patients anywhere in the UK

Greatly improved patient diversity

Generating richer, more diverse participant populations

Can be adopted alongside traditional trial sites

Bring us on as a standalone site, or to accelerate slow recruitment alongside traditional trial sites

Resources

Below are selection of VCTC case studies and other resources.

A Multi-Centre Parkinson’s Disease Study

A Summary Case Study

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A Multi-Centre Parkinson’s Disease Study

A Detailed Case Study

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Virtual Phase 4 CTIMP Trial Study

A Summary Case Study

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Virtual Phase 4 CTIMP Trial Study

A Detailed Case Study

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10 Pear Tree Close,
Hartshorne,
Swadlincote,
DE11 7AQ

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