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Show health professional infoLatest independent information about quality use of medicines, written and reviewed by experts in Australia.
Quality use of medicines is also known as QUM, medications management, rational use of medicines, wise use of medicines or medicinewise.
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| NPS Pharmacy Practice Reviews | Full listing of all NPS Pharmacy Practice Reviews, what they are, and eligibility for CPD points. |
Professional activity - Pharmacy Practice Review | Health Professionals | 2008-02-12 00:00:00 |
| Conference papers presented by NPS staff | Conference papers presented by NPS staff on topics relating to the quality use of medicines. |
Web page | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-02-21 00:00:00 |
| Consultations and Reviews | NPS has prepared a stakeholder consultation report in collaboration with Palliative Care Australia, it summarises the current situation with respect to quality use of medicine in palliative and end-of-life care |
Web page | Members & Stakeholders | 2010-09-02 00:00:00 |
| Pharmaceutical industry | Overview of the information sharing work of NPS with the medicines industry, including peak drug industry bodies and interested pharmaceutical companies. |
Web page | Members & Stakeholders | 2008-04-23 00:00:00 |
| NPS research projects and partnerships | Current research projects and partnerships aimed at building a body of evidence for promoting good prescribing and quality use of medicines. |
Web page | Research & Evaluation community | 2008-05-01 00:00:00 |
| Free health & medicine information | Order free health & medicine consumer info, tools, resources & e-alerts from NPS. |
Form | Consumers | 2011-09-02 00:00:00 |
| Quality use of medicines online training courses | A suite of courses for health professionals and students about the quality use of medicines. |
Professional activity - Learning module | Health Professionals | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 |
| Medicine safety and multiple brands | Earlier this year we introduced ‘medicinewise’ to Australians as shorthand for practicing safe and wise use of medicines. Our next campaign focuses on enabling people to understand medicine names and reduce confusion around brands. |
Campaign | Health Professionals | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 |
| Why should Australia be medicinewise? | We’ve launched a national “Be medicinewise” campaign, introducing the term ‘medicinewise’ as shorthand for quality use of medicines and medical tests. |
Campaign | Health Professionals | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 |
| Generic medicines training kit: safe and appropriate use of generic medicines | Information to help ensure pharmacy assistants are competent to manage general questions from customers about generic medicines. |
Professional tool - Kit - Pharmacy assistants | Health Professionals | 2007-12-01 00:00:00 |
| Medicines and older people | Examines prescribing and medication management issues in older people in the community and aged care facilities; strategies for consumers and health professionals. |
Professional publication - NPS News | Health Professionals | 2004-06-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS Prescribing Practice Review 26: Drug use in the elderly | Information on the principles of good prescribing in the elderly, including advice on managing sleep or behavioural disturbances using both non-drug and drug therapy interventions. |
Professional publication - Prescribing Practice Review | Health Professionals | 2004-07-09 00:00:00 |
| NPS Prescribing Practice Review 3: Role of antibiotics in treating acute bronchitis and acute upper respiratory tract infections | Information questioning whether there is unnecessary use of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections, along with prescribing points to guide appropriate use in such conditions. |
Professional publication - Prescribing Practice Review | Health Professionals | 1999-04-01 00:00:00 |
| Links to websites about research into Quality Use of Medicines | Links to other websites including the map of QUM initiatives around Australia, QUM research centres, and funding sources for QUM. |
Web page | Research & Evaluation community | 2008-02-12 00:00:00 |
| About Research & Development at NPS | NPS research activities, aims, and funding for quality use of medicines (QUM) research. |
Web page | Research & Evaluation community | 2008-02-05 00:00:00 |
| Tools and tips for consumers on the wise use of medicines | Tools to help you get to know your medicines to improve the health and wellbeing of you and your family. |
Web page | Consumers | 2011-04-11 00:00:00 |
| Online learning – a sustainable option for delivering QUM interventions, Poster NMS 2010 | Online learning is a sustainable way to deliver quality use of medicines activities adding value to other QUM interventions. Koo M, Baskett K, Mendrela G, Petrie H. National Medicine Symposium, 26-28 May 2010, Melbourne, Australia |
Event - Conference poster | Health Professionals,Research & Evaluation community | 2010-05-28 00:00:00 |
| Achieving quality use of medicines in the community for palliative and end of life care | NPS has prepared a stakeholder consultation report in collaboration with Palliative Care Australia, it summarises the current situation with respect to quality use of medicine in palliative and end-of-life care |
Corporate publication - Academic article by NPS | Members & Stakeholders | 2009-09-25 00:00:00 |
| Run a managing medicines session with the NPS kit | Information on running a managing medicines session with the NPS 'Get to know your medicines kit'. |
Consumer resource - Kit - Get to know your medicines | Consumers | 2008-02-12 00:00:00 |
| Pharmacy Practice Review – improving quality care | The National Prescribing Service Ltd (NPS) has developed a new Pharmacy Practice Review to help pharmacists deliver best practice care for patients prescribed proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). |
Media release | Others | 2009-05-20 19:00:00 |
| Funding boost acknowledges importance of quality use of medicines | The National Prescribing Service Ltd (NPS) has welcomed a funding enhancement from the Federal Government to expand on our quality use of medicines work. |
Media release | Others | 2009-05-12 22:00:00 |
| Feedback sought on medicines issues in palliative care paper | National Prescribing Service Ltd (NPS) invites health professionals and interested health organisations to provide feedback on a consultation report about medicines issues in palliative care and end of life, which will guide future NPS programs in this area. |
Media release | Others | 2009-04-03 19:00:00 |
| Information seeking by consumers and associated QUM practices: recent trends from the NPS Annual Consumer Survey. NMS 2008 | Information seeking and quality use of medicines (QUM) practices amoung the general population and seniors over the period 2003-2007. Orr N, Donnelly N. National Medicines Symposium, 14-16 May 2008, Canberra, Australia |
Event - Conference poster | Health Professionals,Research & Evaluation community | 2008-05-16 00:00:00 |
| Get to know your medicines kit | Information on running a managing medicines session with the NPS 'Get to know your medicines kit'. |
Consumer resource - Kit - Get to know your medicines | Consumers | 2009-02-27 00:00:00 |
| What is QUM (quality use of medicines)? | Learn about the quality use of medicines (QUM) - ways of using drugs appropriately to improve our health. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2004-03-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS multimedia campaign promoting the wise use of medicines | Learn about the NPS multimedia campaign promoting Medimate and the quality use of medicines through print, radio and television advertising. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2004-02-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS community quality use of medicines (CQUM) program management committee | Learn about the representative management committee for the NPS community quality use of medicines (CQUM) program. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2003-12-01 00:00:00 |
| Getting older people interested in quality use of medicines (QUM) | Learn ways of getting older people interested in quality use of medicines programs, by having local pharmacists present on local issues. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2003-12-01 00:00:00 |
| A city tackles medicines issues | The Whyalla Quality Use of Medicines Project was an ambitious project that set out to develop a sustainable model for improving the use of medicines in regional communities throughout Australia. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2003-08-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS multicultural CQUM program — Australian mosaic article | Article from Australian mosaic (November 2008, issue 20) titled ‘Improving understanding of medicines use in CALD communities’, on the NPS multicultural CQUM program. |
Corporate publication - Academic article by NPS | Consumers | 2010-11-17 00:00:00 |
| Victorian Seniors’ Festival - A great time to get to know your medicines | The Victorian Seniors’ Festival marks an ideal time to have an information session to get to know your medicines better and help avoid a medicines mix-up. |
Media release | Others | 2005-03-08 00:00:00 |
| Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) wins the Community Category at National QUM Awards | Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) is the winner of the Community QUM Award category for their No more 'mualagh' - Depression Medication Project at the National QUM Awards 2006 presented last night at a ceremony held at Parliament House, Canberra. |
Media release | Others | 2006-06-09 00:00:00 |
| NPS makes headway in the quality use of medicines | Changing health behaviour and better communication between health professionals and consumers is resulting in improved use of medicines. |
Media release | Others | 2005-03-23 00:00:00 |
| NSW Cancer Institute and St Vincent's Hospital win Health Professional Category at National QUM Awards | The NSW Cancer Institute and St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney have taken out the Health Professional QUM Award category at the National QUM Awards 2006 presented last night at an awards ceremony held at Parliament House, Canberra. |
Media release | Others | 2006-06-09 00:00:00 |
| 2006 National QUM Awards: Call for entries: Health Industry QUM Award Category | NPS is calling for entries from the health industry, including government, the private health industry, and the medicines industry who have demonstrated best practice and leadership in promulgating Quality Use of Medicines principles to enter the 2006 National QUM Awards. |
Media release | Others | 2006-02-15 00:00:00 |
| 2006 National QUM Awards: Call for entries: Media QUM Award Category | NPS is calling for entries from journalists and communication professionals, including freelancers and students who have raised awareness about Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) to enter the 2006 National QUM Awards. |
Media release | Others | 2006-02-15 00:00:00 |
| 2006 National QUM Awards: Call for entries: Student QUM Award Category | NPS is calling for entries from students studying in a range of fields including medicine, pharmacy, nursing, dentistry, health promotion, public health and communication who have demonstrated excellence in developing a project or program to improve Quality Use of Medicines. |
Media release | Others | 2006-02-15 00:00:00 |
| Medication management website for nurses | A new website has been developed by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) to provide registered nurses working in residential aged care with access to resources to assist with medication management issues. |
Media release | Others | 2008-11-24 00:00:00 |
| 2006 National QUM Awards: Call for entries: Community QUM Award Category | NPS is calling for entries from consumers and community groups who have implemented Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) programs or activities to enter the 2006 National QUM Awards. |
Media release | Others | 2006-02-15 00:00:00 |
| 2006 National QUM Awards: Call for entries Health Professional QUM Award Category | NPS is calling for entries from health professionals, including doctors, pharmacists, nurses, divisions of general practice and Home Medicines Review facilitators who have implemented Quality Use of Medicines programs or activities to enter the 2006 National QUM Awards. |
Media release | Others | 2006-02-15 00:00:00 |
| 2006 National QUM Awards: Call for entries | NPS is calling for entries from individuals or groups, who have contributed to the principles of Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) and have demonstrated best practice, to enter the 2006 National QUM Awards. |
Media release | Others | 2006-02-15 00:00:00 |
| National Medicines Symposium 2006: 7-9 June, Canberra | Fourth biennial conference on Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) 2006. |
Media release | Others | 2006-06-06 00:00:00 |
| NPS impacts further on quality use of medicines | The 8th Evaluation report, Progress, achievements and future directions, outlines the outcomes that National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS) is achieving through its activities and services for health professionals and consumers. |
Media release | Others | 2006-01-19 00:00:00 |
| NPS launches new GP prescribing tool | Dr Lynn Weekes, CEO of NPS, has launched the Indicators of Quality Prescribing in Australian General Practice manual with GPs and general practice stakeholders at the AGPAL 3rd International Conference on Quality in Healthcare on the Gold Coast. |
Media release | Others | 2006-03-14 00:00:00 |
| Get to know your medicines: a new multicultural initiative launched by the Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott MP | Multicultural communities to be focus of new medicines information program. |
Media release | Others | 2005-02-08 00:00:00 |
| ACT Seniors Week: A great time to get to know your medicines | NPS and COTA offer tailored information sessions about managing medicines which are run by seniors for seniors, as part of ACT Seniors Week. |
Media release | Others | 2005-03-23 00:00:00 |
| More GPs embracing Quality Use Medicines | Results of the fifth national survey of general practitioners undertaken indicates an improvement of GPs knowledge and behaviours around QUM. |
Media release | Others | 2007-11-14 00:00:00 |
| Online learning brings together health professional students | Online learning for undergraduates across the health professions on Quality Use of Medicines (QUM). |
Media release | Others | 2007-02-07 00:00:00 |
| Winners of National QUM Awards 2006 announced | Projects pioneered in inner city Sydney and the remote Kimberley region of WA were among the winners of the National QUM Awards 2006 presented at an awards ceremony held at Parliament House, Canberra, last night. |
Media release | Others | 2006-06-09 00:00:00 |
| NPS supports Australia's future leaders in QUM | NICS Fellowship for a future leader in the uptake of evidence in the Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) offered by NHMRC and NPS. |
Media release | Others | 2007-05-03 00:00:00 |
| National Medicines Symposium 2006 - Call for Abstracts closes 24 February | NPS is calling for abstracts for the 2006 National Medicines Symposium |
Media release | Others | 2006-02-10 00:00:00 |
| Veterans' MATES project wins Poster Category at National QUM Awards | The Veterans' MATES project, run by The Department of Veterans' Affairs and the Quality Use of Medicines & Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia, has won the National Medicines Symposium Poster Presentation Category of the National QUM Awards 2006. |
Media release | Others | 2006-06-09 00:00:00 |
| The Pharmaceutical Alliance wins Health Industry Category at National QUM Awards | A collaboration of research-based pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly Australia, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck Sharp & Dohme, The Pharmaceutical Alliance, has won the Health Industry QUM Award category. |
Media release | Others | 2006-06-09 00:00:00 |
| Tasmanian School of Pharmacy PhD student wins new Student Category at National QUM Awards | Tasmanian School of Pharmacy PhD student Luke Bereznicki is the winner of the inaugural Student QUM Award category at the National QUM Awards 2006, presented last night at an awards ceremony held at Parliament House, Canberra. |
Media release | Others | 2006-06-09 00:00:00 |
| Highest recognition for work in promoting quality use of medicines: Dr Stephen Phillips receives award for 15 years of service | Dr Stephen Phillips receives OAM for services to NPS. |
Media release | Others | 2007-06-18 00:00:00 |
| NPS Get to Know Your Medicines national campaign launch in August aims to increase questions about medicines | NPS wants to support communication between health professionals and consumers about Quality Use of Medicines. |
Media release | Others | 2007-08-03 00:00:00 |
| Consumers are becoming more active in Quality Use of Medicines | 9th NPS Evaluation Report, Progress, Achievements and Future Directions, indicates an improvement in consumer behaviour around Quality Use of Medicines. |
Media release | Others | 2007-01-23 00:00:00 |
| New prescribers to benefit from QUM programs | Three projects that will extend NPS's work to new and emerging health professional groups with prescribing responsibilities. |
Media release | Others | 2007-10-26 00:00:00 |
| Upskilling the QUM connection | Information about the annual National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS) Facilitators’ Forum held in Sydney August 2007 which enhanced the knowledge base of Quality Use of Medicines (QUM). |
Media release | Others | 2007-08-21 00:00:00 |
| 2008 National QUM Awards | Entries are open until March 15 in the biennial National QUM Awards which celebrate significant contributions to Quality Use of Medicines (QUM). |
Media release | Others | 2008-02-06 00:00:00 |
| Patients are the winners in National Quality Use of Medicines Awards | The National QUM Awards were presented by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) and the Pharmaceutical Health And Rational use of Medicines (PHARM) Committee at the biennial National Medicines Symposium. |
Media release | Others | 2008-05-16 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: Main document | Evaluation framework for monitoring the changing content, complexity and scope of NPS: Better choices, Better health. (Executive summary, About the NPS evaluation framework and chapters 1–4) |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-06 00:00:00 |
| NPS home page | Independent, not-for-profit and evidence based, NPS enables better decisions about medicines and medical tests. |
Web page | Others,Health Professionals,Consumers,Members & Stakeholders,Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 |
| Rural Project Schemes 2004-2005: Summary of activity and evaluation reports | NPS evaluation of its rural quality use of medicines projects in 2004 and 2005. |
Web page | Research & Evaluation community | 2006-09-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS multicultural CQUM program | Article from Australian Mosaic (April 2007, issue 16) titled Participation and inclusion in health, on the NPS multicultural CQUM program. |
Web page | Consumers | 2010-11-17 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: NPS contribution to relevant national QUM indicators | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on NPS contribution to relevant national QUM indicators. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: Evaluation communication strategy | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on the evaluation communication strategy. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-06 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: NPS evaluation data sources | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on NPS evaluation data sources. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: Evaluation terms and definitions | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on evaluation terms and definitions. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-06 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: Evaluation plan template | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on the evaluation planning tool template. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-06 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: Evaluation planning tool template | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on the evaluation planning tool template. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-06 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: NPS logic model | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on the NPS logic model. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-06 00:00:00 |
| Evaluation framework for NPS: NPS’s business model | This appendix to the NPS evaluation framework provides information on the NPS’s business model. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-06 00:00:00 |
| MedicinesTalk No. 18 Winter 2006 edition | MedicinesTalk No. 18 Winter 2006 edition, containing older italians hungry for information, diabetes explained, managing diabetes, don't let your medicines trip you up, and kids and the common cold. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2006-06-01 00:00:00 |
| MedicinesTalk No. 13 Autumn 2005 edition | MedicinesTalk No. 13 Autumn 2005 edition, includes articles on organising local, rural events, questions to ask, media stories, polypharmacy, CQUM update and sharing medicines. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2005-03-01 00:00:00 |
| MedicinesTalk No. 11 Spring 2004 edition | MedicinesTalk Spring 2004, contains articles on medicines advice for young people, drug brand names, internet drug information, sleeping well, a rural QUM project and medicine expiry dates. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2004-09-01 00:00:00 |
| MedicinesTalk No. 9 Autumn 2004 edition | MedicinesTalk No. 9 Autumn 2004 edition, contains articles on health information 'in our hands', multimedia campaigns, Home Medicines Reviews explained, getting group speakers, what is QUM, and keeping a lid on the cost of medicines. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2004-03-01 00:00:00 |
| MedicinesTalk No. 8 Summer 2003 edition | MedicinesTalk No. 8 Summer 2003 edition, contains articles on older people and QUM, storing drugs in the heat, pharmacists, Consumers Adverse Medicine Events Line, Program Management Committee, vaccinations for children, and the medication records trial. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2003-12-01 00:00:00 |
| Participation and inclusion in health promotion practice: The Multicultural Community Quality Use of Medicines Program | The National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS) and FECCA established joint community program interventions to allow equitable access for multicultural Australians to 'Quality Use of Medicines' (QUM) information. In this article the program leaders NPS and FECCA give an overview of the program and share their learning. |
Web page | Consumers | 2010-11-17 00:00:00 |
| NPS Evaluation Report No. 5: Progress of a national program for QUM, October 2002 | Evaluation of NPS including a national program for QUM (Quality Use of Medicines), intervention programs, process evaluation, impact evaluation, outcome evaluation, and questions that remain. |
Corporate publication - Evaluation report | Research & Evaluation community | 2002-10-01 00:00:00 |
| Karen Kaye, Executive Manager, Quality Use of Medicines Programs | Biography of Karen Kaye, Executive Manager, Quality Use of Medicines Programs |
Web page | Others | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 |
| MedicinesTalk No. 25 Autumn 2008 edition | MedicinesTalk Autumn 2008, containing keeping a lid on medicines, authority prescriptions, combination medicines, new medicines, and Medicines Line answers your questions. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2008-03-01 00:00:00 |
| Ethnic families get to know their medicines | After hours ethnic schools curriculum trial for the Queensland project ‘Families get to know their medicines’. |
Web page | Consumers | 2010-11-17 00:00:00 |
| Quality use of medicines in the multicultural community teaching resource | Provides guidelines for use of a teaching resource on safe and appropriate use of medications for adult ESL patients. |
Consumer resource - Kit - ESL teaching resource | Consumers | 2010-11-17 00:00:00 |
| Evaluating the work of NPS | Rigorous evaluation of our programs ensures we are getting the best outcomes for Quality Use of Medicines in Australia. |
Web page | Others | 2008-02-22 00:00:00 |
| About quality use of medicines | Quality use of medicines (QUM) means selecting management options wisely; choosing suitable medicines if a medicine is considered necessary; and using medicines safely and effectively. |
Web page | Others | 2008-02-22 00:00:00 |
| What NPS does | NPS works with health professionals, consumers, Government and industry to improve the health of all Australians through Quality Use of Medicines. |
Web page | Others | 2008-02-22 00:00:00 |
| Medicine use in Indigenous communities | Good Medicines Better Health project aims to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's quality use of medicines. |
Consumer publication - MedicinesTalk | Consumers | 2007-12-01 00:00:03 |
| History of NPS | National Prescribing Service (NPS) was launched in March 1998 by the Department of Health and Family Services to undertake work in QUM. |
Web page | Others | 2008-02-22 00:00:00 |
| Who is NPS? | NPS is the Quality Use of Medicines service agency for Australia's National Medicines Policy. |
Web page | Others | 2008-02-22 00:00:00 |
| About us | National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS) is an independent, non-profit organisation for Quality Use of Medicines. (NPS) is an independent, non-profit organisation for Quality Use of Medicines. |
Web page | Others | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 |
| Rural community projects | NPS supported 16 QUM projects to assist people in rural and remote areas, find drug information and access medicines and health professionals. |
Web page | Consumers | 2009-01-16 00:00:00 |
| Medicinewise Living | Medicinewise Living is for everyone who wants to manage their health and get the best from their medicines |
Web page | Consumers | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 |
| Position statements | NPS position statements are developed to state our position on issues related to quality use of medicines for which there are controversial or critical opinions. |
NPS position statement | Others | 2008-05-01 00:00:00 |
| NPS on way to becoming a household name: evaluation report | NPS’s latest evaluation report has been published today and highlights the diverse ways in which quality use of medicines is being achieved at grass-roots levels across Australia. |
Media release | Others | 2011-02-28 19:00:00 |
| Ask the right questions | Some examples of medicinewise questions to ask whenever you take a medicine |
Campaign | Consumers | 2011-01-20 00:00:00 |
| Is this medicine right for me? — FAQs | FAQs to help you decide how if medicines are right for you. Find out what medications or drugs do, as well as their side effects, compare options & make a decision. |
FAQ | Consumers | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 |
| Making wise choices about medicines — FAQs | FAQs about how to decide if medicines are right for you. Find out what medications or drugs do, as well as their side effects, compare options & make a decision |
FAQ | Consumers | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 |
| Making wise choices about medicines: list of topics | How to decide if medicines are right for you. Find out what medications or drugs do, as well as their side effects, compare options & make a decision |
Web page | Consumers | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 |
| Making wise choices about medicines: list of stories | List of real-life stories about how to decide if medicines are right. Find out what medications or drugs do, as well as their side effects, compare options & make a decision |
Consumer resource - Story | Consumers | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 |
| Be MedicineWise | Being medicine wise means knowing what a medicine is, how to take it and why, so you can make better decisions about your health. |
Web page | Health Professionals,Consumers,Members & Stakeholders,Others,Research & Evaluation community | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 |
| Access independent medicine & health info by your condition, medicine or topic | Independent, evidence-based info on conditions, medicines & health topics written & reviewed by Australian experts |
Web page | Health Professionals,Consumers,Members & Stakeholders,Others,Research & Evaluation community | 2010-12-17 00:00:00 |
| Independent medicine & non-drug treatment info for consumers, health professionals, media & researchers | Independent medicine info written specifically for you by experts in Australia. |
Web page | Health Professionals,Consumers,Members & Stakeholders,Others,Research & Evaluation community | 2010-12-17 00:00:00 |
| Be MedicineWise flyer | To remind you of the things you can do to learn about, discuss and manage your health and medicines |
Consumer publication - NPS factsheet | Consumers | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 |
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