NPS research projects and partnerships

Research at NPS aims to identify and develop innovative programs to improve medicine use, and ultimately the health of the community.

For more information about Research and Development click here.

Complementary medicines

• Complementary Medicines: Information use and needs of consumers and health professionals (Completed - Reports avaliable)

Consumers' knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour

• National Census of Medicines Use (Current)

Health professional initiatives to improve decisions and practice around medicines use

• Improving the Uptake of Evidence-based Drug Information and Decision Support (Current)
• Improving Asthma Device Use: Innovative models for inter-professional practice. ARC Linkage Grant with the University of Sydney (Current)
• Prescribing Data in General Practice Demonstration (PDGPD) project (Current)
• Evaluation of the Safety, Quality and Usefulness of Electronic Prescribing Systems in General Practice (Current)
• Understanding and Influencing Prescribing Practice (Completed)

Health professionals' knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour

• QUM for Nurse Practitioners (Completed)
• Medical Practitioner Utilisation of New Drugs: A Qualitative Study of General Practitioners, Endocrinologists and Psychiatrists (Completed - Results avaliable)

Medication Safety 

• Medication Safety in the Community: a review of the literature (Completed - Report avaliable)
• Medication safety in Australia: current state of medication safety activities (November 2007) (Completed - Report avaliable)

Between 2000 and 2005, NPS conducted a program to foster and promote research that contributes to Quality Use of Medicines.

To this end, NPS funded 11 peer-reviewed external grants and two PhD scholarships. See NPS funded research

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