About the Australian Teletrial Program Project

Teletrial Myth Busting and Information Update

Teletrials are where the coordinating site (Primary) connects with local sites (Satellite) to build capacity and capability for clinical trials across regional, rural and remote Australia.

Harmonisation of national policy and implementation tools

These tools are aimed at reforming what has been a long and arduous process for progressing through HREC and Research Governance. Key points of difference and the road from Protocol development through to patient recruitment

Teletrial Supervision Plan

The Teletrial Supervision Plan is a key document for the implementation of Teletrials

As the Teletrial model has expanded across jurisdictions, specialties, and interventions, multiple plans started to be used. This resulted in duplication of resources to recreate plans, different information being collected and inconsistent reporting for Sponsors.

National standardisation of documentation was identified as a key priority for national harmonisation and implementation of Teletrials across jurisdictional boundaries.

Collaborating with the Alfred Trial Hub, VCCC Alliance and the New South Wales Ministry of Health, the ATP facilitated an extensive review of the Teletrial Supervision Plan to achieve a nationally accepted document.

The revised Supervision Plan has had input from various stakeholders who manage and undertake Clinical Trials and Teletrials.

This included Research Governance Offices, Certified Human Research Ethics Committees, and Clinical Trial Sites with and without teletrial experience.

The Supervision Plan template is now available on the Australian Teletrial Program (ATP) website: Resources – Australian Teletrial Program.

New educational videos will be available soon on the ATP website to assist you to learn more about and complete a Supervision Plans.

How can we improve equity of access to clinical trials for patients who live in regional, rural and remote areas?

The Australian Teletrial Program is an innovative health equity program to improve access to clinical trials for patients closer to where they live, and makes clinical trials for new novel drugs, technologies, and models of care more accessible.

To date the program has been focused on setting up the infrastructure required to make teletrials available. There is now a fully operational Regional Clinical Trial Coordinating Centre (RCCC) in each participating jurisdiction: the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia and Victoria.

The teams are working hard to bring clinical trials closer to home for patients across specialties including renal, neurology, sexual health, mental health and palliative care. They are connecting clinical trial sites, and helping to build local capacity and capability, using the proven Teletrial model.