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National QUM Awards 2006 - Report National QUM Awards 2004 - Report

Details of the winning and highly commended entries in the 2004 awards are listed below.

Health Professional QUM Award

Award winner

The QUM Coast Project, South Australian Department of Health

The QUM Coast Project in South Australia, implemented in the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula region, has reduced the prescribing of benzodiazepines for insomnia. Thanks to the determination of local GPs, pharmacists, aged care facilities and consumers, this project now includes a number of other therapeutic areas and is having a major impact on how medicines are prescribed and used. Mr Bill Dollman, Principle Advisor, Pharmaceutical Services received the award on behalf of the South Australian Department of Health.

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Highly commended

School of Population Health, The University of Queensland - Individual Medication effectiveness test service

The University of Queensland has introduced a national service which allows testing of patients to see whether they respond to particular medications. These tests are known as Individual Medication Effectiveness Tests (IMETs). It is the first public access IMET service in Australia.

The tests are an innovative and practical way to prescribe medications more appropriately by identifying whether the drug works best for the patient on an individual level.

Community QUM Award

Award winner

Medicine Information Persons (MIP) Project, Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association of NSW

The Medicines Information Persons (MIP) Project has been running since 1995 and focuses on improving medicine use and behaviour among older consumers. The MIP project recruits and trains volunteers to educate their peers in their community. In Sydney this project reaches 13 different language groups and works through local community groups such as Legacy, University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney and the University of Newcastle.

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Highly Commended:

Fostering Partnerships in Health and Education Pty Ltd - Wrap Around Kids

This program is designed to address the growing incidence of kids who don't fit into today's classroom environment for example kids medical problems such as ADHD, mental health conditions and autistic spectrum disorders. To date the program has successfully identified children with previously undiagnosed conditions and has allowed families and health professionals to band together to support each other and share information.

Pharmaceutical Industry QUM Award

Award winner

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare - Panadol: Leading the OTC market place with consumer focussed labelling

The winning entry went to GlaxoSmithKline for the redevelopment of their Panadol labeling. When recent reviews of the use of paracetamol identified the importance of content warnings and careful labeling GlaxoSmithKline researched the usability and consumer-friendliness of their existing packaging. In an effort to ensure the best use of this medicine they went about redesigning their Panadol labeling with great results.

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Highly Commended 

Australian Self-Medication Industry - Development of a labelling Code of Practice and Guidelines for Consumer-Focused Labelling

The Australian Self-Medication Industry (ASMI), who won Highly Commended, identified labeling of medicines as necessary to achieve understanding, acceptance, trust and responsible use of self-medication products. Together with the Communication Research Institute of Australia ASMI then proposed to develop an industry code of practice for the non-prescription medicines industry. The Labeling Code of Practice and Guidelines resulted and are now widely used.

Media QUM Award

Award winner

Australian Pharmacist - CPD section

Australian Pharmacist won the Media QUM Award for their new section of the publication dedicated to providing continuing education for pharmacists. This section of Australian Pharmacist provides pharmacists with practical examples of how to deal with situations in their workplace to maximize best use and understanding of medicines. In future Australian Pharmacist is looking to provide online access to these articles.

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Highly Commended

GoodMedicine - 'Stick to the Script'

In February 2004 GoodMedicine Magazine published an article focusing on the six most common mistakes made by people taking medicines. This article was developed in consultation with NPS, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the University of South Australia. This article generated a mass of Letters to the Editor from people who enjoyed this practical information.

QUM Poster Award

Award Winner

Implementing Health Policy Along the Continuum of Care: Medication Management Service in a Transitional Care Unit

Primary Author: Debra Rowett, Drug And Therapeutic Information Service, Repatriation General Hospital, SA. Secondary Authors: Lisa Spurling, Joy Gailer, Desmond Colley, Maria Crotty, Craig Whitehead, Owen Davies, Spiros Arkiandios

This project aimed to provide a multidisciplinary medication management service and the role of a clinical pharmacist team in a transitional care unit (TCU) funded by both public and private health care sectors.

Clinical pharmacists from two teaching hospitals in the southern region of Adelaide service a 36 bed transitional care unit established as part of the City Views project. The primary role is to provide medication management services, with a focus on QUM and continuum of care.

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Highly Commended

Aboriginal Health Worker Training - An Important Role for Pharmacists to Improve Quality Use of Medicine in Indigenous Communities

Author: Amanda L Sanburg, Principal Pharmacist, Ministry of Health, Vanuatu Government, Vanuatu

Overview:

During 2001 pharmacists of the PAH combined with local pharmacists and South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health staff to provide 20 one hour training sessions to the staff of the local Aboriginal health service, Pika Wiya.

This program provided the platform for the development of a two part CD Rom for health professionals to use in their training of Aboriginal Health Workers (AHW) and Aboriginal Health Workers to use in the training of others.

National QUM Awards 2008

Click here for details of the 2008 awards

National QUM Awards 2006

Click here for details of the winning and highly commended entries in the 2006 awards.

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

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