Accurate, balanced evidence-based information about medicines
| When: | 15th May 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Where: | Canberra | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Audience: | Consumers; Health Professionals; Members and Stakeholders; Research and Evaluation community | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host: | NPS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 AwardWinner: 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.
Highly Commended: The Seniors Quality Use of Medicines National Peer Education program administered by the COTA Partnership and COTA Alliance.
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.
Highly commended: Safe Medication Practice Unit, Queensland Health.
Media QUM AwardWinner: Vital Health magazine which ran a series of generic medicines features, written for National Pharmacies and presented by Text Pacific Publishing.
Media QUM Award — Trade MediaWinner: Australian Pharmacist Knowledge in Practice section, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
Student QUM AwardWinner: 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.
Highly Commended: Ian Coombes, for the Safe Medication Practice Tutorial Program for Medical Students, School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland.
NMS 2008 Poster AwardWinner: 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.
Highly Commended: Patterns of asthma medication use: an Australian population-based longitudinal study from the Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring.
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:
The definition of QUM applies equally to decisions about medicine use by individuals and decisions that affect the health of the population. Simple examples of QUM in action include:
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