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Innovative Trials

Innovative Trials specialises in delivering effective global patient recruitment strategies for your clinical trials by adopting a patient and site-centric approach. We work with some of the biggest global pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organisations (CROs) and biotech companies to deliver effective patient recruitment and retention strategies for clinical trials.

We pride ourselves on forging close, collaborative and long-lasting relationships with our clients. Together, we become one team to ensure patient recruitment and retention success for your studies.
Innovative Trials was founded in 2010 by Kate Shaw and Dave Watkins after identifying a growing need for clinical trial patient recruitment support.

Headquartered in the UK, Kate and Dave have grown Innovative Trials into a leading global expert in patient recruitment and retention with clinical trial recruitment specialists living and working in more than 70 countries.

Areas of Expertise

Rescue Studies

Non Rescue Studies

Traditional Clinical Trials

Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs)

Hybrid Clinical Trials

Corporate Social Responsibility

Equality and Diversity Commitment

Innovative Trials is committed to ensuring we eliminate discrimination from all of our processes and culture. Our Equality and Diversity Committee is here to support the company in creating an organisation where the working environment is accessible, responsive and appropriate to people where all employees can fully contribute, develop and flourish at work, irrespective of their personal characteristics.

Our commitment is to :

Take an overview of equality, diversity and human rights issue to support the company’s strategic agenda in this area.
Work within Equality and Human Rights Commission guidelines and codes of practice.
To oversee the design, implementation and periodic review of IT’s equality objectives.
To oversee the implementation, completion, monitoring, audit and evaluation of the Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) process for policy and procedures.

Team

Kate Shaw

Founder and CEO

kate.shaw@innovativetrials.com

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Marco Lassandro

FREE Live Webinar - Accelerating Patient recruitment in Clinical Trials post COVID-19 - 8th June 2022: Innovative Trials and Parexel invite you to attend the live webinar
Innovative Trials named a finalist in the Inspiring Hertfordshire Awards: The patient recruitment organisation has been shortlisted in the Inspiring Hertfordshire awards
Innovative Trials suspends services in Russia in response to Ukraine war: Kate Shaw, Founder & CEO of the leading patient recruitment organisation based in Letchworth (UK), on the current Russia-Ukraine situation.
Meet Innovative Trials at SCOPE 2022: Stop by Booth 1015 to meet the Innovative Trials' team during SCOPE 2022
Innovative Trials named Best global Patient Recruitment Company of 2021: Innovative Trials, has been named Best Global Patient Recruitment Company by the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards 2021.
Innovative Trials wins the Queen’s Award: Innovative Trials presented with Queen’s Award for international excellence in clinical trial patient recruitment

White Papers and Resources

Improving diversity in clinical trial patient recruitment: A key requirement for clinical trials is to understand the effect of potential treatments on the patient populations that will benefit most. Despite this, many studies find diverse patient recruitment challenging and this can have major implications.
Increasing patient randomisation rate by 200% for a Top 5 global pharma: Phase IIa Moderate to Severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa Case Study
Eating Disorders Awareness Week: In the latest blog post, Innovative Trials' Equality & Diversity committee focuses on eating disorders
FREE Live Webinar - Diversity in Clinical Trials - 24th February: Innovative Trials, Pfizer and Parexel invite you to attend the live webinar
Three predictions for the clinical trial industry in 2022: Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials Founder & CEO, looks ahead to 2022 by listing three predictions for the clinical trial industry in 2022
World Cancer Day - February 2022: World Cancer Day is celebrated around the world in February in February and innovative Trials wants to take this opportunity to raise awareness around cancer
Personalised medicine: driving a need for greater diversity in clinical trials: Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials' Founder & CEO, investigates one of the biggest challenges facing clinical research today.
Cervical Cancer Prevention Month: In this first 2022 blog, the Innovative Trials' Equality & Diversity committee will be looking at raising awareness around Cervical Cancer
Interview with Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials' Founder/CEO: 2021 has been a very busy year for Innovative Trials and Kate Shaw discusses the main highlights.
Diversity in clinical trials: looking back at our 2021 blogs: In this blog, we look back at the Innovative Trials' Equality & Diversity (E&D) committee blogs across 2021
Accelerating patient recruitment in clinical trials with the Clinical Enrolment Managers (CEMs): How Innovative Trials' global Clinical Enrolment Managers (CEMs) give clinical trial sites the local touch
Six ways to improve diversity in clinical trials: Diversity is becoming increasingly important as a focus of clinical trials. This whitepaper gives six approaches that could be implemented to help make diversity a bigger focus on your clinical trials.
Men’s Health Awareness Month: In this November blog, Innovative Trials will be looking at the men's health and the Movember movement which aims at raising awareness around men's health
Lupus Awareness Month: In this second October’s blog, we will be looking into Lupus in clinical trials: its symptoms, complications, treatments, incidence and focus on diversity.
Black community representation in clinical trials: This Black History Month, we discuss the black representation in clinical trials and the effects COVID-19 has had on the black community.