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Top 25 Rare disease patient recruitment companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 81 rare disease patient recruitment companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 3,280 professional contacts across them, including 645 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers rare disease patient recruitment companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
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The 25 largest rare disease patient recruitment companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our passion for improving patients’ lives motivates us to apply our skills, experience, and knowledge to advance medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “hVIVO plc (Ticker: HVO) is a science‑led early‑phase drug development company purpose‑built to meet the growing complexity of modern clinical research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Richmond, we're on a mission to transform healthcare by delivering faster answers and turning hope into tangible solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re on a mission to make life better for patients taking part in clinical trials around the world-and for the caregivers who support them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Innovative Trials was built around a simple belief, patient recruitment works better when people feel supported.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Medicys is a leading provider of healthcare fieldwork solutions, specialising in recruiting patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) for Health Economics and Outcomes Research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ARC's purpose is to expedite access to precision medicine clinical trials for patients globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2019, Apsida Life Science is a specialist recruitment business Headquartered in Surrey, with offices in London UK, Boston USA and Pretoria, SA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “End-to-end CRO services Strategic consultation for all aspects of your trial Customizing an optimal trial design Fit-for-purpose data End-to-end patient focused services Quick…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sanius Health is a London based, patient-owned company which focuses primarily on patients living with rare and chronic diseases at a global level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global Perspectives, an IQVIA business, specialize in engaging large numbers of hard-to-reach patients, healthcare professionals and payers to take part in scientific studies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orphan Reach was a leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) designed to navigate the complexity of trials in orphan indications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission is to shape a medical profession that can provide people living with rare conditions a timely diagnosis and excellent care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LDA Research are experts in providing a comprehensive fieldwork service, specialising in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Momentum-Pharma was established with the aim of helping Biotechs, CROs and Pharmaceutical companies supplement their teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “4MCS is a privately owned Dedicated Clinical Research Sites in the UK with Head Office in Manchester (UK).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GeneHub is consent-first, real-world data from which Biopharma and CROs can recruit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “By leveraging our long-lasting European expertise in, BlueDil International can help you navigate the complexities of rare disease pharma, to unleash the full potential of your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IPS is an Oxford-based HealthTech company specialising in identifying and engaging global HCPs from the Rare Diseases Sector, gathering insights and knowledge that enables our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mendel Partners are the world’s first Biotech Start-Up Partners exclusively dedicated to Advanced Therapies and Rare Diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an entrepreneurial pharmaceutical company working to drive change in rare diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Panacea is a global leader in patient recruitment for clinical trials, connecting pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and CROs with qualified participants to accelerate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Neonstone develops and implements digital strategies within healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One Research specialises in patient recruitment, driving clinical research success for the benefit of human health.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CDDI is a specialist bio-medical consulting company based in London and Barcelona and founded in 2009 by R&D executives from top Pharma companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: rare disease patient recruitment companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names rare disease patient recruitment companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of rare disease patient recruitment companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name rare disease patient recruitment companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Rare disease patient recruitment companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 81 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among rare disease patient recruitment companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “rare disease patient recruitment companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names rare disease patient recruitment companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among rare disease patient recruitment companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 645 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names rare disease patient recruitment companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many rare disease patient recruitment companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 81 rare disease patient recruitment companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Simbec-Orion, headquartered in Merthyr Tydfil, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most rare disease patient recruitment companies?
London leads with 19 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (4) and Cambridge (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 645 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 81 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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