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The Caribbean's clinical research site network
PCRA Caribbean brings together commercial research sites across the region — hospitals, polyclinics, family practices, specialist clinics, pharmacies, laboratories and dedicated research units — so sponsors, medtech companies and CROs reach them all through a single relationship. Real sites, real patients, realistic feasibility.
We run as a commercial organisation, to commercial timelines — profit just isn't our primary goal. Our purpose is to increase the flow of research studies into Caribbean healthcare.
PCRA Caribbean is where companies come when they need research delivered in the Caribbean. Whether you're running a clinical trial, building a regulatory file, gathering real-world evidence, or simply need a letter of support from a credible clinician — we're building the infrastructure to deliver it, properly, across the whole region.
Research-ready sites prepared for full trial delivery — hospitals, polyclinics, family practices and dedicated research units. From feasibility (and yes, this means realistic feasibility!) to supported site selection — we know our sites, their strengths and their capacity. We will find you the right site for your trial at the speed you need.
Faster, more focused evidence generation from real Caribbean healthcare settings. In-service evaluations, product assessments, and structured data collection — conducted by practising clinicians in the setting of use. Built for regulatory submissions, payer evidence packages, and post-market requirements.
Need clinical evidence for your submission? A letter of support from a practising physician? A handful of robust case studies to back up your file? We connect you with the right clinicians, quickly and professionally, with full documentation.
Decentralised and hybrid study models designed around the patient: community-based assessments and direct links between research sites and patients' own clinics. Tell us the delivery model your protocol needs and we'll build the site network around it.
PCRA Caribbean is the Caribbean arm of the PCRA Group, backed by PCRA UK — the network that grew from 12 founding practices into the country's largest independent primary care research network. Same model, same leadership philosophy, built for Caribbean healthcare: commercial timelines, realistic feasibility, and more studies flowing into the region. Caribbean sites are joining now.
Figures relate to PCRA UK, our sister network within the PCRA Group. PCRA Caribbean runs separately, on its own systems, with its own growing network of Caribbean research sites.
Cardiometabolic disease is not a recruitment challenge in the Caribbean — it is the region's daily clinical reality. That means faster enrolment of genuinely eligible, largely treatment-naive participants, from populations global research has historically under-represented.
Figures from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), NCDs at a Glance 2025. Full sources on the Why the Caribbean page.
Partners get direct access to the leadership team, honest feasibility from day one, and a network shaped around the studies they actually need to run. We handle client relationships with discretion — when our clients are happy for us to say so, you'll see their names here, and not before.
Start the conversationEvery site in our network commits to strict research governance requirements, with ICH-GCP training for trial staff — the same standards our UK sister network has delivered against for years. The platform itself holds no patient records — only site capability and professional contact information — and our processes are built to stand up to ethics-committee and sponsor scrutiny under the applicable data-protection and health-research laws in each participating country and territory. You focus on your product, not the paperwork.
We work within the Caribbean's public-health framework — including the regional research priorities and ethics review of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) — and help sponsors navigate the national and regional approvals each study needs. Read how.
PCRA Caribbean is an independent network and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, CARPHA or CARICOM.
Whether you're a pharmaceutical company planning a clinical trial, a medtech manufacturer needing real-world evidence, or a regulatory affairs team looking for clinical support — we'd like to hear from you. And if you run a hospital, clinic, pharmacy, laboratory or research unit ready to bring research to your patients, so would we.
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