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Medtech specialisms

Deep, named experience in the trials medtech companies actually run.

Clinical Research Solutions is a clinician-led UK CRO for medical device and medtech trials. Three areas where we have signature, repeatable experience: wound care evidence generation, robotic surgery clinical investigation, and medical devices used outside hospital. We add specialisms as our portfolio grows.

Specialism 01

Wound care

Wound care products are often developed with good evidence behind them — but manufacturers now need to generate evidence in a continual cycle, showing how a product performs in everyday NHS practice with real patients, in real care settings. We design clinician-led evaluations that are scientifically robust, practical and affordable to run.

We deliver across primary care, community nursing and patients' own homes, collecting real-world clinical and usability data directly from clinicians and patients — then turning it into evidence manufacturers can use for product development and NHS adoption.

SolasCureCerdak market accessMulti-site NHS evaluation
Where we deliver
Primary care & GP practices
Community nursing teams
Patients' own homes
Reaching ~180 NHS GP practices and a ~8 million patient population through PCRA, the UK's largest GP-led research network.
Read the wound care case studies →
How we deliver surgical studies
MHRA & ethics approvals managed end-to-end
Sponsor, NHS surgical and research teams coordinated
Safety monitoring & quality assurance throughout
Experience on first-in-UK studies of new platforms
Much of our surgical work is under confidentiality — ask us and we'll share what we can about relevant experience.
Specialism 02

Robotic surgery & surgical devices

Surgical devices — including robotic platforms — need clinical evidence from the most tightly regulated settings in healthcare. Running a surgical study means aligning regulators, hospital R&D, surgical teams and the sponsor around one protocol, with uncompromising safety oversight throughout.

We deliver this work as a full-service CRO — managing MHRA and ethics approvals, coordinating sponsor and NHS surgical and research teams, and overseeing trial management, safety monitoring and quality assurance. Our experience includes pivotal, first-in-UK investigations of next-generation surgical platforms.

Full-service deliveryMHRA & ethics approvalsNHS hospital delivery
Read a surgical device case study →
Specialism 03

Out-of-hospital medical devices

Care is steadily moving out of hospital — into GP surgeries, community clinics and patients' own homes — and the devices that support it need evidence from those same settings. How a device performs on a hospital ward says little about how it performs in a patient's home, or in the hands of a community nurse working alone.

Because we're embedded in NHS primary care through PCRA, we run evaluations and trials directly where these devices are actually used — recruiting through GP practices and community teams, and capturing usability, workflow fit and patient experience from real day-to-day use.

Primary & community carePatients' own homesReal-world usability evidence
Settings we cover
GP practices & primary care
Community clinics & district nursing
Patients' own homes
Urgent care & outpatient settings
Evidence collected from the clinicians and patients who actually use the device — not a simulated setting.
Read the EziVein case study →
A lighter-weight route to evidence

Not every device needs a full clinical trial to start with.

Where appropriate, we use a service evaluation — a lighter-weight way to gather real-world evidence without needing full clinical trial approval. It's how we helped Irish medtech company EziVein turn independent frontline clinician feedback on their venous access device into product development and market strategy, before committing to larger evidence-generation studies.

See our delivery models →