Every vial accounted for, every log in its place.
The electronic pharmacy site file for NHS Trusts, CRDC hubs and spokes, academic units and CROs. IMP accountability, dispensing, cold chain and calibration held as tracked slots with due dates and named owners — readiness calculated straight from the file.
Four ways the pharmacy file drifts out of step with the product it accounts for.
Temperature excursions surface after the fact
A fridge log is reviewed weekly. An excursion is discovered days after the product was already dispensed.
IMP accountability is reconciled retrospectively
Receipt, dispensing, return and destruction are recorded separately, then reconciled at the next monitoring visit.
Calibration certificates lapse unnoticed
Fridge probes, balances and freezers each renew annually. Nothing counts the days for you.
Pharmacy sits outside the site file
The investigator file is governed; the pharmacy file is a lever-arch folder in a locked cupboard.
8 controls over product, record and signature.
Product movement, storage conditions and sign-off are held under one governed structure — each control writing to the record the next one reads.
Pharmacy binders
A pharmacy binder created from its own template, applied across one site or every site.
Pharmacy milestone library
Reusable definitions for the pharmacy events a study expects, each with its document set.
Roles & permissions
Configurable roles governing who may upload, sign, certify or administer the pharmacy file.
Accountability placeholders
Every expected log and certificate held as a tracked slot with a status, a due date and an owner.
Uploading records
Uploads fulfil the placeholder they were opened from, with metadata captured at intake.
Signature & certification
Re-authentication at the moment of signing, and a formal wizard for certifying a true copy.
Dashboard & reporting
Six views and four exports, every one drawn from the live pharmacy record.
Versions & governance
Revision, locking and removal — each retained in full, each requiring re-authentication.
The temperature log the template anticipated is the log the inspector reads.Adopt the pharmacy file on its own, or extend the same governance across the rest of the platform.
Pharmacy and investigator files, governed separately.
Pharmacy and investigator documentation are governed as distinct binders under one module. Choose the type at creation; each then runs its own folder library, template, reference date and readiness figure.
From expected record to filed accountability.
One screen, four steps. Select a step to move the same temperature log through it.
STD-63822 · ePSF · Alder Hey Children's
Conduct phaseThe template has created the slot: folder 05.01, milestone DIP LOG, due 30 Sep, owner named, signature required. Nothing has been filed, and the gap already counts against readiness.
The technician selects the placeholder; the upload panel opens pre-linked to that slot. Upload stays disabled until both a file and an External Document ID are supplied.
The status flips to Fulfilled, the record appears beneath the placeholder in the tree, and completeness recalculates. The Chief Pharmacist’s signature is still outstanding.
Once filed, the record carries its action menu — preview, download, supersede with a revised log, certify as a true copy, or lock against further change.
What changes for the person handling the product.
With AQ ePSF
With AQ ePSF
With AQ ePSF
With AQ ePSFA phase closes only when the pharmacy file is clear.
Progression runs forward through five phases and never back. A closed phase reopens read-only, so the pharmacy record proves what it held then as well as now.
Paper logs answer to nobody until the monitor arrives.
IMP accountability, fridge logs and calibration certificates still live on paper and in spreadsheets at most sites. None of it reports its own state.
MHRA inspection findings repeatedly cite investigational product accountability and storage records — the documentation most often held on paper, and the least able to report its own state.
“Receipt through to destruction sits on one accountability trail. When a monitor comes to pharmacy we open the binder rather than clearing a bench and starting a reconciliation.”
Continuous IMP accountability and cold-chain visibility extended upstream, across a global clinical-logistics network.
Two ways to look deeper into AQ ePSF.
The module guide, and how AQ compares against other clinical software.
Questions research teams ask.
Not covered here? Write to us at enquiries@aq-trials.com.
The controlled repository for pharmacy-level study documentation: investigational product receipt and accountability, dispensing and cumulative dispensing logs, storage temperature records, cold-chain verification, equipment calibration certificates and, where applicable, environmental monitoring. It is the pharmacy’s own record of how it handled the product, and the file examined when an inspector visits the pharmacy.
The same controls applied to a different file. eISF holds the investigator site file — protocol, approvals, consent, delegation and monitoring evidence. ePSF holds the pharmacy site file — IMP accountability, dispensing, storage and calibration. Both use the same folder-structure principles, placeholder statuses, signature rules and readiness arithmetic, but are configured with different default templates. A study may run both, each from its own template and reference date.
Receipt, dispensing, return and destruction are each expected documents with their own milestone codes and due dates. The cumulative dispensing log is a tracked placeholder rather than a spreadsheet, and every entry carries the user and timestamp that produced it. Reconciliation is therefore continuous, not an exercise performed before a monitoring visit.
A daily storage temperature log is a recurring placeholder with its own due date and named owner. Where an excursion occurs, an ad-hoc placeholder records it, and a CAPA can be raised directly from the document’s action menu carrying the study, category and record with it. The excursion, the action taken and its closure sit on one trail.
Calibration certificates — fridge and freezer probes, balances and scales — are placeholders with annual due dates calculated from the last certificate. The named owner is notified seven days ahead of the due date, on the date, one day after and seven days after. A lapsed certificate shows as Overdue against the pharmacy readiness figure.
Fulfilled placeholders divided by applicable placeholders. Applicable is everything the study expects of the pharmacy at its current phase, less any placeholder waived with a recorded reason — for example environmental monitoring at a site performing no aseptic preparation. Both calculations display on the dashboard alongside the figures.
Yes. Roles are configured in Role Management with grouped ISF/PSF permissions, and a user may be scoped to the pharmacy binder alone. Restricted folders remain visible only to named users, and every access is attributable.
Yes. One template may be applied across every pharmacy, or a distinct template and reference date assigned per site. The cross-site matrix presents every pharmacy against the same milestones, and phase advancement waits until the outstanding list is cleared at all of them.
Connected Intelligence organises records, proposes where an upload belongs, surfaces documentation gaps and detects quality signals early. Every suggestion is reviewed by an individual. Authority over signature, certification, record closure and phase advancement rests with the responsible user. UK-hosted and aligned with NHS DSPT expectations.
AQ sits on the Digital Marketplace under G-Cloud, so a Trust can call off against the framework instead of running a full tender; pricing, service definition and exit terms are already published there. Cost depends on the modules taken and the number of pharmacies covered, so we quote against your configuration. Trial periods are agreed case by case.
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