We are pleased to welcome our latest Corporate Member. The NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre is an academic research organisation at the University of Sydney, Australia and a leader in the conduct of large-scale collaborative clinical trials and high quality trial related research in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and perinatal disorders.
The Centre's health economics group undertakes methodological and applied health services research including within-trial and modelled economic evaluations, preference studies and meta-analyses that inform health policy and decision making.
The Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) and the Australian Commission on Safety and Equality in Health Care have published a landmark report outlining the economic benefits of investigator-initiated clinical trials.
Read more →The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is administering two competitive grant opportunities on behalf of the Department of Health for two programs under the Medical Research Future Fund.
Lifting Clinical Trials and Registry Capacity and Antimicrobial Resistance.
A recent episode of Richard Adey’s weekly Radio National program The Money looked at the Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: On Prescription: What the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme costs and how it could be better.
Read more →A recording from the Centre of Big Data Research in Health of Digital Transformation Minister Angus Taylor talking to UNSW health data researcher Professor Louisa Jorm on open data.
Read more →When drugs are not subsidised by the government, and a doctor feels that a drug would be worthwhile, another way of paying must be found. Some of these treatments are very expensive. In some cases, the patient has to cover the cost. It can be yet another difficult decision for a cancer patient to make.
A new study by NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre researchers and colleagues has examined these problems from the point of view of practising oncologists. They surveyed medical oncologists and oncology trainees in Australia and have reported the results from 154 respondents.
Read more →Professor John Simes, CTC director, has just been awarded the University of Sydney’s Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. It acknowledges his exceptional research at the university.
Read more →Work is underway to investigate alternative approaches to determining residential care funding that delivers more stable funding arrangements. The study will be conducted by HSRAANZ corporate member- the Australian Health Services Research Institute at the University of Wollongong and build on the report Alternative Aged Care Assessment, Classification System and Funding Models, completed earlier this year.
Read more →Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are often heralded as the best way to measure improvement in public services – the ‘gold standard’ of evidence. Two recent articles question this one size fits all approach.
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