A difficult handover
A fresh start

Changing CRO can feel like putting a number on a disappointment.

Time has been lost. Money has been spent. Trust has been tested. For any sponsor, acknowledging that the current arrangement is no longer working is a difficult decision. We understand both the operational consequences and the human sensitivities involved.

We help you assess where the study stands, what can be recovered, and whether a change of project leadership, a targeted intervention, or a full CRO transition offers the strongest way forward.

The investment already made cannot be rewritten. What it delivers next can still be changed.

A transition needs its own project management.

We know how to take over studies from CROs and other providers that have struggled to deliver. We enter sensitive situations with clear priorities, professional respect, and a practical plan. The immediate task is to establish the facts, protect continuity, and make ownership unambiguous.

We coordinate the outgoing and incoming teams, sites, and vendors. We map critical activities and dependencies, reconcile outstanding work, and oversee the transfer of documents, data, access, and study knowledge. Patient safety, data integrity, and essential ongoing activities remain central throughout.

A handover is complete when responsibilities are understood and the work is moving.

A new team should bring more than new names to the meeting.

We use the transition to address the causes of poor performance: unclear decisions, broken communication, unrealistic plans, and gaps in accountability. We rebuild the delivery strategy around the study’s actual position, with achievable priorities, visible progress, and a team that understands what must happen next.

We work to free sponsors from underperforming CRO arrangements, protect studies from avoidable failure, and keep promising ideas from being lost to operational problems. A difficult change can become the point at which a programme regains momentum and recovers value that seemed out of reach.

We cannot promise every study can be rescued. We commit our experience, judgment, and effort to giving yours the strongest possible chance.