After a recent week away from work, it’s been interesting to get back into the swing of things and try to come up with new and different methods of recruiting patients for clinical trials that may help achieve better results.

One thing I’ve done is to go through a ‘no filter’ brainstorming session, simply writing down any ideas as they come up, and I’ll be going through an ongoing process of reviewing what I’ve written to see if there’s any value in exploring anything further.

It’s easy to filter our thoughts and ideas before they’re fully-formed. Bringing our existing knowledge and experience into play and rejecting anything that doesn’t fit with our preconceived notions of what might work.

But it can often prove valuable to simply go with the flow and let the ideas tumble out, as you never know whether there’s something useful that can be developed from them.