Clinical Trials

Overview

Harbour Cancer and Wellness conducts clinical trials to enhance the lives of individuals living with cancer, advance medical knowledge and improve treatments.


Brand new purpose built facility

Our Newmarket clinic is brand new and purpose built to facilitate clinical trials. We have 14 Chemotherapy Chairs, and a laboratory complete with all the necessary equipment, including freezers and a backup generator for continuity of supply in the event of a grid power outage.

Our North Shore cancer clinic

Fast start up

With the right resources to hand, we are fast to start up. Being a private practice means we’re quick to make decisions. Sponsors work directly with the lead investigators who are supported by a highly experience team of clinical and administrative trials staff.

Our cancer wellbeing centre

Productivity for visiting colleagues

We provide working spaces as well as guest wifi and access to a networked printer.

Harbour Cancer innovates with clinical trials

Information Technology  

Harbour Cancer runs a Microsoft365 desktop along with the MS Office suite of applications.  

Our cancer wellbeing centre

Following is a list of our facility specifications

If you have any questions our would like to arrange a site visit, please contact trials.coordinator@harbourcancer.co.nz

Clinical Equipment

Device
Brand Description
1.ECG Edan SE 1200 Express 
12-channel electrocardiograph 
2.Infusion pumps BD Alaris 
Volumetric pumps with Guardrails safety software
3.Defibrillator Stryker
Lifepak Cr2
4.Thermometer Covidien/Cardinal Health 
Genius 3 Tympanic Ear Thermometer 
5. Patient scale Wedderburn WM302  
Medical Weight Scale + integrated height rod 
6. Sphygmomanometer Welch Allen  
767-Series with cuff and mobile stand 
7. Suction Pump CA-MI 
ASKIR 230/12V Surgical Suction Unit 
8. Vital Signs monitor Edan iM3 
Digital vital signs machine 

Laboratory

Device
Brand Description
1.Freezer (-20°C)   Matos PLUS 
Eco 125 F Medical Freezer*  
2. Freezer (-70°C)  Haier DW-86L100J 
Ultra-low temperature Freezer* 
3.Centrifuge (x2)  Kubota S300TR 
Benchtop Refrigerated Centrifuge 
4. CRT Cabinet (20°C)  NuLine 
NLMi1000 Refrigerated Incubator Cabinet 
5. Portable Air Con (x2)  Carrier 
Portable Aircon/Heater 

* HCTL has an account with Marken NZ to provide dry ice to site within 1 hour in the event of compressor failure

Medical Room

Device
Brand Description
1.Refrigerator   Matos PLUS 
Cloud 300 R/GDT 
2. IMP storage  Built in cabinet
Ambient temperature; coded entry 
3. Portable Air Con Carrier 
Portable Aircon/Heater 

Other

Device
Brand Description
1.Temperature monitoring  Matos
Ambient & critical equipment temperature
monitoring system 

2. Air conditioning

    a. Normal work hours
Built in
Facility central air conditioning system with room-by-room ambient temperature sensing with individual zone set points 
3. Air conditioning

    a. After hours/weekend  
Carrier (x2)
Floor standing units in Medication Room & Laboratory maintain temperature at 20-23°C when central aircon is off (6pm – 7am weekdays; 6pm Friday – 7am Monday)
4. Back-up generator   Honda
Generator back-up power supply to Medication Room and Laboratory (Essential Supply circuit); Email notification of mains power off/generator on. Approximately 14h run time before fuel tank needs to be refilled. 

Electronic Medical Records system – MOSAIQ 

Guest access can be provided – limited to specific trial participant files.

User Agreement required for access. Unique credentials per user.  

Clinical Trial Management System – CRIO 

CRA/Monitor access can be provided – limited to “Monitor View”. 

User Agreement required for access. Unique credentials per user. 
  • eSource 
  • eRegulatory
  • eISF  

Electronic Site Files – FLORENCE 

Guest access can be provided – limited to specific trial binders.

User Agreement required for access. Unique credentials per user. 
  • eRegulatory
  • eISF Document Management 

MATOS Real-time Temperature Monitoring System 

Our MATOS RTTMS enables live temperature viewing via an online portal, automatic reporting, and email & SMS alerting in case of a temperature breach and/or hardware fault (e.g. loss of network connectivity).
  • Fully automatic 24/7 real time temperature and humidity level online monitoring
  • Cloud storage integrity guaranteed for at least ten years 
  • Full audit history on temperature data and alert history (minimum storage of 15 years) 
  • FCC, NZ & Australian Compliance 

Mains power loss

UPS on the IT network maintains data transmission to the cloud.  

IT network downtime

Backup battery in the data loggers allows onboard data collection which synchronises to the cloud once IT systems are restored ensuring no loss of monitoring data.