Standard Operating Procedures to achieve Good Clinical Practice

The Southern Health Research Directorate has put in place Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to achieve good clinical practice (GCP) in clinical research. The aim of the SOPs is to provide the necessary tools to ensure that researchers at Southern Health are able to operate to International Clinical Harmonisation/Good Clinical Practice Guidelines (ICH GCP) standards by efficiently providing operating documentation.

What are Standard Operating Procedures?

A ‘SOP’ is a specific description of how to undertake a particular task. Where a SOP is in place it is expected that procedure would be followed as described by all of the relevant people referred to within the procedure. If a SOP is not followed this would be seen as a breach of process from the point of view of an audit or from a legal perspective.

All SOP documents are available on the PROMPT system on the Southern Health Intranet. 

Documents are also available to download below: