Clinical Trial Benefits Realisation Plan
This is a practical guide to building a benefits realisation plan for a clinical trial project — how the project’s benefits will be measured and actually realised, adapted to the realities of planning and running a clinical trial.
What a Benefits Realisation Plan is
A benefits realisation plan is how the project’s benefits will be measured and actually realised. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Benefits Realization. On a clinical trial project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Clinical Trial project
Clinical Trial projects live or die on planning and running a clinical trial. A well-built benefits realisation plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how clinical trial projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Target benefits
- Metrics / KPIs
- Baseline values
- Owner
- Realisation timeline
Clinical Trial-specific considerations
Tailor the benefits realisation plan to the risks that most often derail clinical trial projects:
- Regulatory and ethics approval
- Patient recruitment
- Data integrity
Example
On a real clinical trial project, the benefits realisation plan would be shaped by planning and running a clinical trial. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — regulatory and ethics approval, patient recruitment, data integrity — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.