Primary care practices serve as the patient’s first point of entry into the health care system and as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services. Almost all European citizens have a general practitioner (GP) who is the first contact physician in case of health problems. Primary care practices provide health promotion, disease prevention, health maintenance, counselling, patient education, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses in a variety of health care settings (e.g., office, inpatient, critical care, long-term care, home care, day care, etc.).

The reason why primary care practices are organized, is to meet the needs of patients with undifferentiated problems, with the vast majority of patient concerns and needs being cared for in the primary care practice itself. Primary care practices are generally located in the community of the patients, thereby facilitating access to health care while maintaining a wide variety of specialty and institutional consultative and referral relationships for specific care needs. Nowadays, Primary care practices are supported by the newest IT technologies and frequently use telemedicine as a tool to access advanced diagnostic methods.

If you wish to be more engaged in clinical research activities, enhance your patients’ care and further develop your practice, please consider joining PCRN*.

Our team will provide support during all the phases of the study as we are aware of the challenges related with patient selection and recruitment. Furthermore, our team will work closely with you and your team and will provide guidance and assistance in completing study related documents and communication with the sponsor to resolve queries.

*Get in contact by filling in the contact form at the bottom of this page.

The clinical research industry today is undergoing a major change and is looking to adopt and implement innovative ways to accelerate drug development and access to the market. The emerging concept of “patient-centric trials” is a new opportunity for both the clinical research industry and Primary Care practices supported by technology, social media, and education.

The PCRN supports late phase and observational studies within therapeutic areas frequently presented in Primary Care practices.

We are happy to perform a feasibility study within the network to check if we can perform your study.

SMO Services:

• Central coordination and execution by Julius Clinical of:
  • Site selection and initiation
  • Streamlining contracting and payments
  • All trainings (GCP, study specific)
  • Logistics (visit scheduling, sample shipments)
  • Supplying GP’s with staff (research nurses to conduct trial activities)
  • Supporting GPs with site coordinators
  • Data entry support
  • Storage of documents, oversight and close out
• Science and support offered via local Principal Investigator
• GPs provide access to patients
• GPs can act as Sub Investigator
• Strong relationship between GP and patient improves recruitment and retention

CRO services

• Central coordination and execution by Julius Clinical of:
  • Site selection and initiation
  • Streamlining contracting and payments
  • All trainings (GCP, study specific)
  • Data management
  • Monitoring
  • Conducting close out visits
  • Feasibility data from PCRN
• Input from safety physicians and science team on protocol
• GPs act as site investigator
• GPs can recruit healthy volunteers for other research sites

A key strength of Julius Clinical is the academic expertise and integrity of our scientific team. Our scientific leaders have broad experience on study committees and are able, through their contacts, to bring together and work effectively with international networks of thought leaders. Our scientific team:

Education, motivation and quality have priority at Julius Clinical. For this reason, we offer accredited continuing education, so that all parties involved are well informed of developments in the field of scientific research in the primary care setting.

Research results are linked back, including via accredited continuing education and newsletters. If necessary or desired, we also offer education prior to a new study. Continuing education activities are currently mainly focused on general practitioners, nurse practitioners, practice assistants and pharmacists.

We organise continuing education and events in conjunction with our partners Elevate and PAO-H.