Each industry has a range of conferences that can be attended each year. Some of them more valuable than others, and obviously some of them more relevant to your own circumstances.

A couple of examples of clinical trials industry conferences coming up in the next few months that people involved in patient recruitment are likely to attend include SCOPE Summit Europe and the CNS Summit.

It’s always great to be at these conferences and network with people in the industry, and I certainly get a lot out of the sessions that the good conferences are known for.

However, every time I come away from one, it occurs to me that perhaps the people who attend conferences are already those most likely to be striving for improvements within the industry. As the kind of best practices and excellent results often discussed on stage are rarely replicated in the world outside.