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National QUM Awards 2008National QUM Awards 2008

When: 15th May 2008
Where: Canberra
Audience: Consumers; Health Professionals; Members and Stakeholders; Research and Evaluation community
Host: NPS

Description:

The biennial National Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) Awards recognise and celebrate significant contributions to QUM.

Recipients were announced on Thursday 15 May at the National Medicines Symposium (NMS) 2008 dinner at the National Convention Centre, Canberra.

Award categories were:

Click here to read the media release.

Community QUM Award

Winner: Good Medicines Better Health Pilot Project, run by the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia, the National Association of Community Controlled Health Organisations and NPS.

Picture of the winners in the Community QUM category of the National QUM Awards 2008
Left to right: Vaughan Matsumoto; Senator Jan McLucas; Colin Mitchell; Dr Lynn Weekes; Mary Buckskin; Dr Janette Randall; Cassandra Matsumoto; Professor Ric Day; Sharron Liddel; Michele Robinson; Tony Burgoyne; Absent: Joanne Hedges.

Highly Commended: The Seniors Quality Use of Medicines National Peer Education program administered by the COTA Partnership and COTA Alliance.

Picture of Debra Petrys and Senator Jan McLucas. Deborah was highly commended in the Community QUM category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Debra Petrys and Senator Jan McLucas.

Health Organisation QUM Award (Public and not-for-profit)

Winner: The Veterans’ Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (Veterans’ MATES), Quality Use of Medicines Program, administered by the Medication Management Section, Policy and Development Division of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Picture of Robert Peck and Jessica Rynehart, winners in the the Health Organisation category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Robert Peck and Jessica Rynehart.

Highly commended: Safe Medication Practice Unit, Queensland Health.

Picture of Elaine Lum and Senator Jan McLucas. Elaine was highly commended in the Health Organisation category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Elaine Lum and Senator Jan McLucas.

Media QUM Award

Winner: Vital Health magazine which ran a series of generic medicines features, written for National Pharmacies and presented by Text Pacific Publishing.

Picture of the winners in the Media category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Susan Muldowney; Senator Jan McLucas; Dr Lynn Weekes; Alexandra Shute; Dr Janette Randall; Professor Ric Day; and Emma Buchanan.

Media QUM Award — Trade Media

Winner: Australian Pharmacist Knowledge in Practice section, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.

Picture of Dr Lisa Nissen and Senator Jan McLucas. Lisa was the winner of the Trade Media category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Dr Lisa Nissen and Senator Jan McLucas.

Student QUM Award

Winner: Lisa Kouladjian, for The Importance of Weight for Calculating Doses of Renally Excreted Drugs, Clinical Pharmacology Department, Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney.

Picture of the winners in the Student category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Senator Jan McLucas; Dr Lynn Weekes; Lisa Kouladjian; Dr Janette Randall; and Professor Ric Day.


Highly Commended: Wern Jing Ding (Jing), for Medication Alteration in Residential Aged Care Facilities, GP Partners. Accepted by Ms Anne Winkle, from GP Partners.

Picture of Anne Winkle (for Wern Jing Ding) and Senator Jan McLucas. Wern Jing Ding was highly commended in the Student category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Anne Winkle (for Wern Jing Ding) and Senator Jan McLucas.

Highly Commended: Ian Coombes, for the Safe Medication Practice Tutorial Program for Medical Students, School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland.

Picture of Ian Coombes and Senator Jan McLucas. Ian was highly commended in the Student category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Ian Coombes and Senator Jan McLucas.

NMS 2008 Poster Award

Winner: Medication management issues for the older person — focusing on three non-English speaking backgrounds from Diversity Health and Community Health Services at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney.

Picture of Jenny Blennerhassett and Senator Jan McLucas
Left to right: Jenny Blennerhassett and Senator Jan McLucas.

Highly Commended: Patterns of asthma medication use: an Australian population-based longitudinal study from the Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring.

Picture of Leanne Poulos and Senator Jan McLucas. Leanne was highly commended in the Poster category of the National QUM Awards 2008.
Left to right: Leanne Poulos and Senator Jan McLucas.

What is Quality Use of Medicines?

Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) is one of the central objectives of Australia's National Medicines Policy. It means:

  • selecting management options wisely;
  • choosing suitable medicines if a medicine is considered necessary
  • using medicines safely and effectively.

The definition of QUM applies equally to decisions about medicine use by individuals and decisions that affect the health of the population.

The term 'medicine' includes prescription, non-prescription and complementary medicines.

Simple examples of QUM in action include:

  • choosing paracetamol to manage persistent pain, because of its excellent safety profile
  • administering ibuprofen with food to reduce the risk of gastric ulceration
  • using a home movie of family activities to calm a person with dementia at the end of the day
  • using a consumer medicines information sheet (CMI) when discussing a child's medication regimen with a parent

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Date published: 2011-01-01 00:00:00

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