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Research Agreements and Fees

 

Barwon Health Research Agreements

There are a number of regulatory documents that are required as part of a research project including agreements, insurance and indemnities. 

To determine if a Research Agreement is required for your project, and links to Research Agreement templates – please click here.

 

Barwon Health Ethics & Governance Fees

RDU fees have been set based on a percentage of the total (human and other) resources required to review a new research project upon submission and then to monitor and manage it over its lifetime.

The fees charged represent only partial recovery of the total cost of providing ethical and governance oversight.

Attention please: The RDU Invoice Request form was updated on 22 July 2023. Please only use new version.

Barwon Health raises invoices for all RDU review fees. Please complete the following steps;

  1. Download a RDU Invoice Request Form (click here to download - updated December 2023)
  2. Enter as much information as possible into the “blue” coloured areas.
  3. Upload completed form to ERM as a Microsoft Word document with your submission.

Research not covered in the below payment types is exempt from any review fees.

All queries regarding this process should be directed via email to [email protected]

Please note: Fees are cumulative.

COMMERCIALLY SPONSORED STUDIES

$ Amount (ex GST)

$ Amount (inc GST)

NEW APPLICATION

Sponsored study: multi-site project (includes governance only submissions)

6000

6600

Sponsored study: single-site project

5500

6050

Sponsored sub-study or a non-interventional study – multi-site

5000

5500

Sponsored sub-study or a non-interventional study – single-site

3000

3300

POST APPROVAL AMENDMENTS

Protocol Amendment with or without new or amended PICF/patient facing documents

600

660

New PICF (including PICF Addendums) 600 660

Investigator brochure

200

220

Administrative amendment, e.g. updates to existing PICFs or patient facing documents only i.e. diaries, surveys, questionnaires and advertisements; typos; includes CTRA Amendments

200

220

Changes to Barwon Health Principal Investigator

200

220

Addition of sites through Barwon Health HREC (not governance) – per site

500

550

 

COLLABORATIVE GROUP STUDIES / UNSPONSORED INVESTIGATOR INITIATED STUDIES – Includes Low Risk

$ Amount (ex GST)

$ Amount (inc GST)

NEW APPLICATION

Investigator-initiated CTN/CTA clinical trial - with commercial support

3000

3300

Investigator-initiated study (no CTN/CTA) - with commercial support

1000

1100

Investigator-initiated CTN/CTA clinical trial – no commercial support

1000

1100

Investigator-initiated study (no CTN/CTA) - no commercial support

500

550

Other projects: non-Barwon Health protocol

500

550

Barwon Health projects (with no other institution involved)

No Fee

No Fee

POST APPROVAL AMENDMENTS

Major Amendment – includes updates to Protocol, Consent Form, IB update

200

220

Minor Amendment – PI Change, administrative updates (including updates to patient facing documents e.g. diaries, surveys, questionnaires and advertisements; also including CTRA/RCA Amendments)

100

110

Amendment for Barwon Health in-house project - no third party

No Fee

No Fee

 

 

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Last Modified: Friday, 22 December 2023