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About the Centre
The Wesley Research Institute Clinical Trials Centre is a purpose-built and designed facility dedicated to conducting clinical trials. It is located five minutes from Brisbane’s central business district, and in close proximity to three major universities.
The Centre ensures participants have access to the latest, most advanced drugs and treatments and provide clinicians with a comprehensive range of resources to help build a healthier community.
While many clinical research companies based overseas, the Centre meets a growing demand for clinical trial services in Australia. The Centre attracts both national and international pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to conduct more clinical trials in Brisbane.
The Wesley Research Institute has been conducting clinical trials since 1998. The Queensland Government , through the Smart State Research Facilities Fund, recognised the Institute’s expertise in this area in 2004 by contributing $800,000 towards the construction of the Institute’s new, dedicated Clinical Trials Centre.
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Centre facilities
Opened in March 2007, the Centre includes the following facilities:
- Fully equipped clinic rooms
- Clinical Research Coordinator workstations and offices
- Medical emergency equipment with immediate access to the on-site hospital emergency department
- Rooms for collecting, spinning and packaging pathology specimens with ‘back-to-base’ alarmed and temperature-controlled storage facilities
- Temperature-controlled, ‘back-to-base’ alarmed storage for medications
- Secure on-site storage for confidential files
- Reception and waiting areas
The Clinical Trials Centre at The Wesley Research Institute is attached to Brisbane’s Wesley Hospital, a major specialist centre networked to four other Uniting CareHealth hospitals across Queensland.
Through this relationship with The Wesley Hospital and Uniting CareHealth, the Centre can offer access to a comprehensive range of resources including:
- 1,000 licensed hospital beds
- 4,000 specialist medical practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals
- 63,000 surgical procedures per year
- 90,000 admissions a year
- Full range of medical and surgical services plus an on-site emergency medicine department, intensive care unit and maternity services
- Links to a world-class research institution
*Stats as at June 2005
Services offered
The Wesley Research Institute Clinical Trials Centre is able to offer the following services:
- Single point of contact to coordinate single and multi-centred trials
- Timely and cost-effective submission of protocols to our on site Human Research Ethics Committee
- Experienced, qualified Clinical Research Manager, Clinical Research Coordinators, Clinical Research Assistants, Data Management Coordinators, and support staff
- Access to a GP referral network and experienced Principal Investigators
- Efficient financial and contract administration processes
- On time and on target participant recruitment
- Sub-contracting of staff to Principal Investigators
Specialist areas
The Wesley Research Institute clinical trials team has expertise in a broad range of specialist areas including:
- Cardiology
- Cardiovascular disease
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology
- Fertility
- Gastroenterology
- Gynaecology
- Haematology
- Infectious disease and immunology
- Interventional radiology
- Nutrition and neutraceuticals
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Oncology
- Orthopaedics
- Pulmonary and respiratory medicine
- Paediatrics
- Rheumatology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Vascular disease
- Weight loss
- Women’s Health
Click here to see both current and completed trials run by The Wesley Research Institute Clinical Trials Centre.
For more information about clinical trials at The Wesley Research Institute, please contact the Clinical Trials Centre on 07 3232 7920 or send an email to clinicaltrials@wesley.com.au.
