NPS MedicineWise medical adviser and GP Dr Jill Thistlethwaite interviews Dr Robyn Lindner from Choosing Wisely Australia and Tara Montgomery, a public health advocate and communications strategist with Civic Health Partners in the United States. They discuss the Choosing Wisely initiative and the role of culture and systems in reducing unnecessary care. Tara also provides a preview of her presentation at the upcoming Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting, a virtual event to be held on 19 May 2021.

Join our panel of GPs as they discuss case scenarios and accompanying echocardiogram images with an expert heart failure cardiologist.

Thursday 27 May 2021
7:00 – 8:00 pm AEST

In this special edition of the NPS MedicineWise podcast, NPS MedicineWise medical adviser and GP Dr Jill Thistlethwaite talks with Dr Hester Wilson, a GP and addiction medicine specialist, and Ms Leah Dwyer, a member of Painaustralia’s Consumer Advisory Group, about the risk of tolerance, dependence and overdose with opioids for chronic noncancer pain.

In this episode NPS MedicineWise CEO Steve Morris interviews Leanne Wells, CEO of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) following the recent CHF Summit - Australasia’s inaugural consumer health summit.

A series of four educational videos which aim to support effective conversations between health professionals and patients about the use of opioids for managing chronic non-cancer pain.

NPS MedicineWise has a wide range of resources to help individuals, community groups and health services to promote being medicinewise.

COVID-19 information to support prescribers, dispensers and healthcare consumers.

This animated video from NPS MedicineWise and the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) provides information to people who may be considering taking opioids for chronic (ongoing) non-cancer pain. 

It’s important to keep an up-to-date list of your medicines in case you need to go into hospital unexpectedly