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.
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.
Visit schedules, eligibility criteria and target numbers are agreed in a meeting and captured in a document.
Suitable participants are identified from a spreadsheet, a paper file and a colleague’s recollection, then contacted individually.
Recruitment, attendance and capacity are exported from separate systems and reconciled by hand into a monthly position.
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.
Location Occupancy
Utilisation by room and by day, across every site you run.
Participant Manager
One record per participant, holding history, consent and study involvement.
Feasibility Manager
Criteria applied to your own consented database, exported for the response.
Planner
The diary, with each booking checked against its protocol window.
Communication
Invitations and two-way participant messaging by email, SMS and WhatsApp, held against the record.
Analytics
Recruitment, attendance and deviation reporting drawn from the record.
Audit Trail
Every action carrying who did it, when, and what changed.
One participant record, read and written by all eight modules.Adopt CTMS alone, or with any combination of the modules opposite — all on the same governed record.
See the AQ platformEvery 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.
Study configuration
aq-trials.com/ctms/study-setup
Schedule design
aq-trials.com/ctms/schedule
Cost and payment setup
aq-trials.com/ctms/costs
Location occupancy
aq-trials.com/ctms/occupancy
Two-way messaging
aq-trials.com/ctms/communication
Feasibility query
aq-trials.com/ctms/feasibility
Invitation campaign
aq-trials.com/ctms/campaignsDemonstration only — nothing is sent.
Two-way messaging
aq-trials.com/ctms/communication
Calendar & appointments
aq-trials.com/ctms/calendar
Visit window check
aq-trials.com/ctms/planner
Audit trail
aq-trials.com/ctms/audit
Study reporting
aq-trials.com/ctms/analyticsA 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.
What the gate checks
ScoredWhat blocks publication
2 blockingWhat happens after go-live
VersionedEach 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.
Actions are attributable
Each entry carries the named nurse or coordinator, their email address and a timestamp, and cannot be edited from the interface.
Amendments are retained
History is preserved rather than overwritten. An amended visit shows its previous value, its current value and who changed it.
Changes are authenticated
A live schedule change requires a password, access-code digits and a written reason, all recorded against the amendment.
Deviations carry a reason
Window status is returned before the coordinator confirms. Where a visit must fall outside it, the reason is recorded then.
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.
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Three ways to look deeper into AQ CTMS.
The module guide, delivery evidence from live studies, and what AQ means for an NHS research operation.
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.
Yes. Studies, participants and visit diaries are managed across sites in a single workspace, so a coordinator can see whether a participant is already committed to another study before approaching them, and a manager can review capacity across every site rather than one diary at a time.
AQ CTMS manages the operations around the study: study set-up, participant records, recruitment, the visit diary, capacity and reporting. Research organisations generally retain their existing data-capture system for eCRF data and use AQ for the operational record that system was not designed to hold.
Contact is made to consented volunteers on your organisation’s own database, with consent basis and communication preferences enforced by the platform. Each approach is recorded against the participant record, providing an audit trail of who was contacted and when. Final wording is confirmed with your data protection officer.
AQ is configured rather than custom-built, so a first module can go live in as little as two weeks once procurement is complete. Onboarding follows Understand, Configure, Train and Support, with a named UK team working alongside your staff.
Every action carries an attributable user and timestamp, participant and appointment changes are retained rather than overwritten, a change to a live schedule requires authentication and a written reason, and visits falling outside their window carry a reason recorded at the point of booking.
Yes. The participant payment and the visit cost are set on each visit as the schedule is built, so both come from the same place the diary books against. Finance and R&D read the study position from the schedule rather than a separate costing sheet, and a change to a visit updates the figure everywhere it appears.
Existing studies, participant records and clinical history are loaded during configuration, and a published schedule can be cloned across studies of the same design, so a portfolio is set up study by study rather than rebuilt by hand. Your team confirms each study before it opens for booking, and the record carries its history from the point of load.
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