Patient engagement was another session at the C3 Summit – with feedback being highlighted as an essential part of the process. Building trust with patients can come from engaging with different groups, plus ensuring diversity of backgrounds in staff members at clinics and sites can help encourage diversity among patients. (Diversity not being limited to ethnicity, of course).

A patient perspective underlined the problems of trying to discuss all the different issues in a 15 minute doctor’s appointment, as well as suggesting that patient-centricity is a bad term, as patients don’t want to be in the center of things, they want to be seen as collaborators and partners.

eCOA issues were discussed, including how costs to implement these solutions are falling as trials are being designed from a digital perspective in the first place.

And there was a look at the EUCTR regulations and the impact they are having on trial design in the EU.