Western Health encourages research that improves outcomes for patients and promotes new and better clinical practice and service delivery.
Western Health has highly effective collaborative partnerships for research throughout Australia and the world with universities, hospitals, research groups and industry. The Western Health Office for Research provides a focal point for our research efforts.
Western Health's Research objectives are to:
- Promote Western Health as a leading centre for research
- Imbed a culture of quality improvement through research and implementation of research findings in the organisation
- Encourage and support staff from all disciplines [clinical and non-clinical] to participate in research activities
- Facilitate the translation of research findings into clinical practice
- Encourage multi-disciplinary and inter-organisational research to better address the complex clinical care environment
- Foster collaborative relationships to optimise opportunities for research
New Research Project Review Procedures for Quality Assurance and Low Risk Projects!!!
Western Health now has its own Low Risk Human Research Ethics Review Panel.
As per the National Health and Medical Research Council's National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007), institutions may choose to establish their own processes for ethical review and approval for low risk research.
Clinical Trial Agreements Document Format
From 1 July 2007, Western Health has adopted the Medicines Australia standard format for clinical trials agreements as its preferred format. This was developed as a result of a 2-year consultation with industry, researchers, hospitals, other research institutions and VMIA [insurer for all Victorian public hospitals]. It is also sanctioned by the pharmaceutical industry.
More informationhttp://www.medicinesaustralia.com.au/pages/page39.asp