Townsville University Hospital - James Cook University (Oncology)

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Organisation Name: Townsville HHS, James Cook University
HHS: Townsville
Services Offered: Clinical Trial Site; Clinical Trial Administration
Website Address: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/townsville
Contact: Jenna Pinchbeck- TSV-Clinical-Trials@health.qld.gov.au
Other Affiliated Research Sites: Townsville

Location

-19.321099 - 146.76087

Is your Facility able to initiate study activities prior to Ethics Committee protocol approval?

How long before Ethics Committee review is the Submission Packet required?

2 weeks

Site Overview

The Townsville Hospital (TTH) is a tertiary referral hospital located in the suburb of Douglas; Townsville. The hospital treats patients from across North Queensland; as far north as Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands; and west to Mount Isa and the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is also the major teaching hospital for James Cook University's schools of medicine; nursing and allied health and for the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE. The Townsville Hospital provides the very latest in cardiac; obstetric; gynaecological; paediatric; neurosurgical; orthopaedic; cancer; mental health; neonatal; allied health; anaesthetic and intensive care services to the community.
A large hospital with a 30-bed gerontology unit and 30-bed maternity unit.The new paediatric oncology day unit provides an expanded service for local children with cancer and will include three new chemotherapy chairs. For many children; this will mean no longer having to travel to Brisbane for treatment Addiitonal facilities include 26 additional chemotherapy chairs and two new linear accelerators used in radiation treatment of cancer patients.

HREC

- HREC Committee Name: Townsville HREC
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes

Facility staffing and training

- Handling Investigational Product: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes

Licenses to receive, store, dispense and return controlled substances

- Required Licenses or Registrations: Yes
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? No

Equipment

- Investigational Product: Extemporaneous Preparation
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: Yes

Patient Records

- Record Archiving: Yes
- EMR/EHR systems: In-house system
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: Other

Investigational product storage Capabilities

- Refrigerator (2 to 8 Degrees C): Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes

Specialty Research Area

Haemic and Lymphatic Diseases

Respiratory Tract Diseases

Study Types

Academic

Source Document Types

Paper and Electronic

Average time to start study (in calendar days)

Greater than 120

How long prior to HREC meeting does the application need to be submitted?

2 weeks

Does your Facility support in-patient admissions?

Yes

PK & PD specimens

Yes

Study Phase Capability

Phase II

Phase III

Type of Diagnostic Equipment

Other

Patient Population

Adults - Ages 18-64

Geriatrics 65 and onwards