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.