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Set-up performance now decides where studies are placed.
Open within 60 days, recruit within 30 — and the figures are published. AQ is the operational record behind them: study delivery, documentation, delegation, pharmacy and quality, in one governed environment.
Your R&D team moves at the speed of the systems around them.
The delegation log sits with the PI, the site file on a shared drive, the KPIs in the R&D office spreadsheet. Each is accurate; none agree until a research nurse or study coordinator reconciles them by hand — and that reconciliation is what pushes a site past 60 days.
It isn't the software. It's the days of manual reconciliation that sit between your team and a published set-up figure sponsors will read.
NHS clinical research software built for the 90 days you're measured on.
Every module does a real job in the 60/30 window. Because they share one record, a deviation logged in the clinic reaches quality and a document filed at site reaches the TMF — with no one retyping anything, and no days lost to the join.
The operational core. Studies, participants, visit scheduling and site capacity in one view — so recruitment is planned against the clinic time you actually have.
The investigator site file, controlled and current. Documents are filed as work happens, so greenlight evidence is assembled in place rather than rebuilt later.
Sponsor-level trial master file completeness across the Reference Model zones, so completeness is a live figure rather than an end-of-study reconstruction.
The electronic pharmacy site file. IMP receipt, dispensing, returns and destruction reconciled against the study record, closing the gap most platforms leave.
Structured quality management: SOP authoring, controlled distribution and read-and-understood tracking, so the quality system is current on any given day.
Deviations and corrective actions with owners, ageing and root cause, so every event is raised, investigated, verified and closed on a full audit trail.
Delegation gated on qualification and training, authorised by the PI electronically, so the delegation log is live and defensible at the point of activation.
EDGE reports it. REDCap captures it. AQ is where the work happens.
These tools do different jobs, and most Trusts run several at once. Here's an honest view of where each one fits — and the operational gap AQ is built to close.
Sponsors place studies with the sites that start fastest.
Government targets are now explicit: open the site in 60 days, recruit the first participant in 30. Performance is published, and sponsors place studies with the sites that meet it. AQ is built around the work those two numbers measure.
Open the site
Documents filed and greenlit in the eISF, staff trained and evidenced in the QMS, delegation e-signed before activation — the evidence exists because it accumulated, not because someone assembled it.
First participant
Recruit from your own consented volunteer database rather than a cold start, schedule against real clinic capacity, and keep participants attending with automated reminders.
Stay ready after
Deviations open linked CAPAs, IMP accountability stays reconciled, and TMF completeness is a live figure — so inspection readiness is a state you hold, not a project you run.
During the COVID-19 response, one NHS Phase 1 unit scaled visit throughput 20× in ten months on AQ — holding a 0.14% missed-visit rate through the surge, with every deviation documented.
Priced for an R&D budget, not a capital programme.
No enterprise rollout, no multi-year lock-in, no consultant-heavy implementation. Start with one module on one study and expand as the value proves itself.
What it replaces
One subscription in place of several point tools, plus the hours spent joining them.
How you buy it
Through a framework your procurement team already uses.
Everything your governance team needs to say yes
Validation, data security, data protection and residency evidence — available to NHS organisations on request.
Questions NHS research teams ask.
EDGE is the portfolio and KPI layer: it reports what your Trust is delivering. AQ is the operational record underneath it — the site file, delegation, scheduling, pharmacy and quality that generate those figures in the first place. They run side by side, and the numbers EDGE reports come off a connected, inspection-ready record rather than a weekend of copy-paste.
AQ does not collect eCRF data; it runs the operations around the study: documents, delegation, scheduling, pharmacy and quality. Most teams keep REDCap and use AQ for everything it was never designed to hold.
Spreadsheets are free and familiar, but they carry no audit trail, no version control and no link between one tracker and the next — so someone reconciles them by hand before every inspection and feasibility. AQ keeps the same information as one attributable record, which is what removes the reconciliation rather than speeding it up.
AQ is configured rather than custom-built, so a first module can go live in as little as two weeks once the procurement process has been completed. Onboarding runs Understand → Configure → Train → Support, with a named UK team alongside your staff.
AQ is listed on G-Cloud, so most NHS teams can procure through a framework they already use. Pricing is modular — you pay for the modules you deploy and expand as you grow, with no enterprise contract or multi-year lock-in.
AQ is validated to GxP standards with every release, with IQ/OQ/PQ documentation and a 21 CFR Part 11 assessment available on request. We are Cyber Essentials certified, maintain an NHS DSPT submission, and provide a DPIA support pack and Data Processing Agreement for IG sign-off — all in the NHS assurance pack.
Yes, and most Trusts do. Start with the module where the pain is sharpest — usually eISF or Digital DOA — on a single study, alongside everything you already run. Modules connect as you add them, so nothing has to be migrated twice.
Open in 60 days. First participant in 30.
See how AQ maps to the 90 days your site is measured on — leg by leg, with the NHS evidence behind it.
Request a live AQ platform demonstration.
Thirty minutes on your own studies — documentation, study activity, quality processes and pharmacy, in one governed record.
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