The Townsville Hospital - Cardiology Research

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The Townsville Hospital (TTH) is a tertiary referral hospital located in the suburb of Douglas; Townsville. The hospital treats patients from across North Queensland; as far north as Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands; and west to Mount Isa and the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is also the major teaching hospital for James Cook University's schools of medicine; nursing and allied health and for the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE. The Townsville Hospital provides the very latest in cardiac; obstetric; gynaecological; paediatric; neurosurgical; orthopaedic; cancer; mental health; neonatal; allied health; anaesthetic and intensive care services to the community.

Research forms a key pillar of the Townsville Hospital and Health Service's (HHS) strategic plan. We believe that research and innovation enhances patient outcomes, and leads to quality and safe healthcare. Our focus on research makes Townsville HHS an exciting place to work and brings the best health practitioners to our region. Featuring the only tertiary facility in Northern Australia and a truly unique health environment in the tropics, there are many research opportunities just waiting to be discovered.

The Townsville Research Education, Support and Administration Unit (TRESA), located in the Townsville Institute of Health Research and Innovation, is the key contact for researchers wishing to undertake research at, or with, the Townsville Hospital and Health Service. If you have any enquiries regarding research at Townsville Hospital and Health Service and or would like to join our researcher email list please call 07 4433 2459

- HREC Committee Name: Townsville HHS
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes

- Handling Investigational Product: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes

- Required Licenses or Registrations: Yes
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? Yes

- Investigational Product: Extemporaneous Preparation
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: Yes

- Record Archiving: Yes
- EMR/EHR systems: In-house system
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: Other

- Refrigerator (2 to 8 Degrees C): Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes