What is the role of the NSW Health Shared Scientific Assessment Committee (SSAC)?
The SSAC is available to review multi-centre and single-site clinical drug trials in circumstances where a NSW Health HREC is unable to meet the provisions under the NSW Health Policy Directive ‘Standards for Scientific Review of Clinical Trials’. Lead HRECs are expected to obtain timely scientific reviews without regular reliance on the SSAC, however they may utilise the SSAC for unusually complex research or occasional first-time-in-human and first-time-in-patient clinical trials.
