AQ CTMSAQ CTMS · Clinical Trial Management System

Plan, execute, monitor and deliver a study from one record.

AQ CTMS is the clinical trial management system for NHS Trusts, research networks, academic units and CROs. Recruitment, visit scheduling, site capacity and reporting sit on one operational record, so visits land inside their window, research space is used, and the monthly figures are already there.

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PT-0142 · Cardio-Renal Ph II · visit schedule 4 / 4 in window
V1 · Screening
Day 0
attended
V2 · Baseline
Day 14 ±3
attended
V3 · Dosing
Day 28 ±3
booking now
V4 · Follow-up
Day 56 ±5
scheduled
Day 28 booked inside its window — checked before the appointment was confirmed.AI flagged the Day 28 window closing this weekATTENDEDBOOKINGSCHEDULED
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Points of operational failure

Critical study operations should not depend on disconnected records.

Protocol planning, participant recruitment and operational reporting exist in separate systems of record. The absence of a connected operational layer creates manual reconciliation, inconsistent oversight and delayed operational decisions.

Record in use
What happens today
Where it breaks
Cost
Document
01 · Study set-up
The study is planned

Visit schedules, eligibility criteria and target numbers are agreed in a meeting and captured in a document.

The schedule is recorded in a document the diary cannot enforce.
Week 1
before plan and diary disagree
Spreadsheet
02 · Recruitment
Participants are recruited

Suitable participants are identified from a spreadsheet, a paper file and a colleague’s recollection, then contacted individually.

No single consented database to query, so eligibility is assembled by hand.
~4 hrs
to fill one session of capacity
Export
03 · Oversight
Delivery is reported

Recruitment, attendance and capacity are exported from separate systems and reconciled by hand into a monthly position.

Figures already held in the operational record are rebuilt outside it.
2–3 days
a month rebuilding known figures
No handover between them Nothing carries the schedule into recruitment, and nothing carries delivery into reporting. Introducing AQ CTMS
AQ CTMSIntroducing AQ CTMS

A clinical trial management system purpose-built for the research site.

Not a sponsor system adapted for site use. AQ CTMS replaces the document, the spreadsheet and the export with eight modules arranged around the study lifecycle — all operating on a single shared record, so what is captured at one stage is available, unaltered, to every stage that follows.

Study Management

Studies, phases and the visit schedule that everything else books against.

ScreeningDay 0
Visit 1Day 14 ±3
Visit 2Day 28 ±3
Every study, its phases and its current recruitment position, held in one list.

Location Occupancy

Utilisation by room and by day, across every site you run.

Room 194%
Room 282%
Room 358%
Room and chair utilisation shown by day, so unused capacity is visible.

Participant Manager

One record per participant, holding history, consent and study involvement.

PT-0142
consenthistory3 visits
One profile per participant, carrying consent, contact preferences and study involvement.

Feasibility Manager

Criteria applied to your own consented database, exported for the response.

Consented
Age 40–75
eGFR < 60
Inclusion and exclusion criteria run as a query across your consented database.

Planner

The diary, with each booking checked against its protocol window.

M
T
W
T
F
15 visits booked · all in window
Each booking checked against its protocol window before it is confirmed.

Communication

Invitations and two-way participant messaging by email, SMS and WhatsApp, held against the record.

Hello {firstname}, appointments are available at {site}
EmailSMSWhatsApp194 sent
Participants reached on the channel they use — email, SMS or WhatsApp — from one screen.

Analytics

Recruitment, attendance and deviation reporting drawn from the record.

72+18% vs Q1
recruited across 3 sites
JanAug
Recruitment against target and attendance rates, drawn straight from the record.

Audit Trail

Every action carrying who did it, when, and what changed.

09:41J. Okaforbooked V2
09:44M. Farrarwindow checked
10:02A. Shahapproved
Each entry names the nurse, coordinator or investigator who made it, and the moment they did.
AscensionQ One participant record, read and written by all eight modules.
Identified in the search
Feasibility
Booked in the diary
Planner
Reached by the reminder
Communication
Counted in the report
Analytics
Entered once and attributable at every step — no re-keying between systems.
Independently, or as part of the platform
CTMS holds study execution — the record every other module reads from.

Adopt CTMS alone, or with any combination of the modules opposite — all on the same governed record.

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Every operation a research team runs, on one record.

Twelve operations across set-up, recruitment, delivery, reporting and evidence — each a working screen in AQ CTMS, each writing back to the same study record. Select any operation to see it run.

AscensionQ Study configuration aq-trials.com/ctms/study-setup
Create the study and attach its sites and staff. Everything downstream — schedule, diary, reporting — books against this single record, and the study advances through its phases from here.
Study record STD-63822 · three panels
Basic informationUsers & sitesStudy meta
What the record holds
Study numberSTD-63822
Protocolv4 · 02 Mar 2026
Group typeMultiple group
Current phaseConduct
SponsorNamed on record
IRAS / EudraCTBoth captured
Sites and staff attached
Main hospitalPI named · 9 staffAdded
Community sitePI named · 6 staffAdded
Partner trustawaiting staffPending
Attaching a site and its staff is what makes the study visible in eISF and bookable in the Planner.
Connected AI assist
Reads the protocol and pre-fills the study record for your team to confirm.
Proposes only — your team reviews and confirms, and the decision is recorded.
Operational gain: One authoritative study record, rather than a folder structure per team.
None of this holds unless the visit schedule itself is correct.
Every booking, window check and report above reads from the schedule defined below.
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The go-live gate

A schedule reaches the diary only once the system confirms it is complete.

Designing the schedule and attaching its costs sit among the operations above. This is the step that follows them: before publication, AQ scores the schedule against every requirement it must satisfy and names precisely what is outstanding.

Setup
Visits
3Go live
4Activity
Readiness check14 of 26 complete
54%complete
Setup & structure — complete
Study info — PI, sites and staff confirmed
Readiness by visit
Screening5/6
Visit 10/6
Visit 24/6
Day 286/6
Remaining — Visit 1 has no booking slots. The Planner will offer nothing to book.

What the gate checks

Scored
Time point and window 4 / 4
Booking slots defined 4 / 4
Cost and payment set 4 / 4

What blocks publication

2 blocking
Visit 3 · no reminder text Blocking
Visit 3 · slots not set Blocking
Everything else Clear

What happens after go-live

Versioned
Bookings window-checked Enforced
Edit in place Refused
Change recorded as v2
What a monitor or inspector asks

Each entry names the nurse, coordinator or investigator, the time of action and the basis for it.

Sponsor monitors, MHRA inspectors and your own QA lead examine the same three questions of any record. AQ CTMS answers each from the operational record itself, without reconstruction.

01

Actions are attributable

Each entry carries the named nurse or coordinator, their email address and a timestamp, and cannot be edited from the interface.

Named to a researcher
02

Amendments are retained

History is preserved rather than overwritten. An amended visit shows its previous value, its current value and who changed it.

Previous value kept
03

Changes are authenticated

A live schedule change requires a password, access-code digits and a written reason, all recorded against the amendment.

Password and reason
04

Deviations carry a reason

Window status is returned before the coordinator confirms. Where a visit must fall outside it, the reason is recorded then.

Flagged before confirmation
Impact by role

The operational cost of fragmented study management.

Coordination time, monthly reporting, deviation risk and feasibility credibility each fall to a different role, and each carries a measurable cost. Select a role to see the burden it carries today and the position AQ CTMS establishes in its place.

The week today Research nurse
An afternoon of calls to fill six visit slots
Rebooking by phone when a participant withdraws at 08:00
Counting days on a wall planner to confirm a window
Chasing attendance the evening before a session
~1.5 days
of every week spent coordinating visits rather than delivering them
With AQ CTMS same week
A cohort invited in one action, replies on the record
Rebooking from the same screen the diary lives in
Window status returned at the point of booking
Reminders issued automatically
1 action
fills a session, so the coordinating effort largely disappears
43,690
participant appointments scheduled
70+
concurrent studies supported
13
sites on one operational record
6 years
of continuous use across UK research

"AscensionQ has made booking research trial participants straightforward and efficient for our busy clinic. The reminder setup improved appointment compliance across all of our studies."

MF
Madi Farrar
Senior Research Nurse
20×
increase in monthly visit throughput, achieved in ten months
NHS Phase 1 unit, COVID-19 response
0.14%
non-attendance across a national surveillance study
SIREN — 10 of 7,090 attended-or-missed visits
7,681
rebookings absorbed with the protocol window held
Across 70 concurrent studies
3,490
out-of-window visits documented with a reason
Recorded at the point of booking
Before you commit

Questions research teams ask.

Anything not covered here, ask us directly at enquiries@aq-trials.com.

Each works in isolation; the cost sits in the join. Someone reconciles the diary, the eligibility list and the reporting spreadsheet by hand every week, and that reconciliation is where visit windows are missed and site capacity goes unused. AQ holds them as one record, so the join is no longer performed manually.

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