Clinical trials have been available at Peninsula Health for over 40 years.
Today, we have around 95 clinical trials open across 15 disease disciplines:
- Allied Health (e.g. physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology etc)
- Anaesthesia
- Cardiology
- Community Health
- Emergency Medicine
- Haematology
- Healthy ageing
- Infectious Diseases
- Intensive Care
- Neurology
- Oncology
- Paediatrics
- Renal
- Surgery
- Thoracic Medicine
Our trial offering has grown by 25 per cent compared to the last financial year.
Peninsula Health provides care across the entire lifespan at five major hospital sites: Frankston Hospital, Frankston Public Surgical Centre, Rosebud Hospital, Golf Links Road Rehabilitation Centre, and the Mornington Centre; five community mental health facilities; and four community health centres in Frankston, Mornington, Rosebud, and Hastings. We also have a growing community-based program, supporting people to have accessible, high-quality care close to where they live.
Our clinical trials expertise
We have:
- Experienced Principal Investigators and Clinical Trial Coordinators in many specialities/services
- Capacity to undertake trials from Phase 1b through to Phase IV
- Credentialled clinical trial pharmacy
- A Research Governance Officer with a focus on short turnaround times for site authorisation and CTRA and CDA review
- Onsite services/equipment including:
- Extensive radiology services
- Pathology services provided by Dorevitch
- -80 Freezer
- New and expanded Chemotherapy Unit opening in 2026.
- The Ngarnga Centre – A joint Peninsula Health & Monash University Research and Academic Centre with a clinical research facility consisting of three clinical research rooms where participants may be seen for assessment, including specimen collection with centrifuge, -20 freezer and height and weight measurement facilities
- The National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), a partnership between Peninsula Health and Monash University is Australia’s leading healthy ageing research centre is based at Peninsula Health’s Frankston Hospital Campus.
Highlights
Over the last four years;
- We have been the highest recruiting Australian site for three international studies – a breast cancer, an advanced renal cell carcinoma trial, and genitourinary
- We have been the first global site to screen a patient for an endometrial cancer trial, and the only Victorian hospital to offer this trial.
If you’re a sponsor and would like to discuss a clinical trial with us, visit the Research Unit pages and contact the relevant staff members.