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Free consumer resources
NPS works with communities about quality use of medicines NPS works with communities about quality use of medicines
NPS organises programs within the community to:
- provide skills and knowledge for decision making about medicines
- raise and improve awareness about the role and limitations of medicines
- promote greater understanding and awareness of choices between medicines use and other approaches
- build on established communication channels
- increase consumer awareness about the key role they play in talking to health professionals about their medicines.
For further information:
- People over 50
- People with chronic conditions
- Parents / carers of children 2–9 years
- Men's groups
- Multicultural communities
- Rural and remote communities
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Campaigns and initiatives
NPS runs a range of different campaigns and initiatives within the community including:
- Be medicinewise campaign
- Managing pain campaign
- Brand choices campaign
- Community partners program
- Common colds need common sense, not antibiotics campaign
- Get to know your medicines campaign — targeting Chinese and Italian speaking seniors.
Our partners
We work in collaboration with a number of national and state-based community and consumer peak organisations:
- Arthritis NSW
- Arthritis SA
- Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
- COTA, the voice of senior Australians
- Diabetes Tasmania
- Federation of Ethnic and Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA)
- National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (NACCHO)
- National Heart Foundation.
Date published: 2011-05-11 00:00:00
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