Did you know that all medicines and treatments were once a clinical trial?
A clinical trial is way for you to try new treatments, medicines, and medical devices. These options may have already shown promising results. They are just not available to everyone yet.
You are welcome to involve your family and friends, ask as many questions as you like. It’s all your choice. Patients say they like the very close care they get on a trial.
Trials can be life-saving, prevent a range of illnesses, and improve your quality of life.
They can help your health now and the health of the next generation.
Clinical trials at Peninsula Health
Today, we have around 95 open clinical trials across 15 disease disciplines:
- Allied Health (e.g. physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology etc)
- Anaesthesia
- Cardiology (heart)
- Community Health
- Emergency Medicine
- Haematology (blood)
- Healthy ageing
- Infectious Diseases
- Intensive Care
- Neurology (brain and nerves)
- Oncology (cancer)
- Paediatrics (children)
- Renal (kidneys)
- Surgery
- Thoracic Medicine (lungs)
Many of our clinical trials are run from our Frankston Hospital site.
We opened our Rosebud Cancer and Clinical Trials Centre in December 2021. This was due to, at the time, 50 per cent of Frankston Hospital’s cancer clinical trial participants being from the Rosebud catchment area.
We want our community to have access to the latest treatments as close to home as possible.
Patients say they feel reassured being on a clinical trial because they are closely monitored.
You have frequent tests, scans and other assessments to monitor for any side effects, and you are in regular contact with your clinician and care team so that any problems are picked up early.
Clinical trials are run under strict protocols with continuous monitoring, and participants must first meet the participation criteria.