Our members and guideline groups

• Asthma Australia
• Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP)
• Australasian Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
• Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT)
• Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
• Australian College of Nursing (ACN)
  
• Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP)
• Australasian College of Paramedic Practitioners (ACPP)
• Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
• Australian Dental Association (ADA)
• Australian Government Department of Health
• Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
• Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association (AHHA)
• Australian Medical Association (AMA)
• Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF)
• Australian Pensioners and Superannuants Federation
• Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)
• Australian Private Hospitals Association
• Carers Australia
• Chronic Illness Alliance
• Consumer Healthcare Products Australia
• Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
• Council on the Ageing (COTA)
• Diabetes Australia
• Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA)
• Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association
• Health Education Australia Limited (HEAL)
• Lung Foundation Australia
• Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA)
• Medicines Australia
• National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
• National Asthma Council of Australia
• National Heart Foundation of Australia
• NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group Inc. (NSW TAG)
• Optometrists Association Australia
• Palliative Care Australia
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)
• Pharmacy Guild of Australia
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR)
• Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)
• Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA)
• Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)
• Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd

Voting members are organisations that have representative members of quality use of medicines stakeholders, who can demonstrate a commitment to the quality use of medicines and support the National Medicines Policy.

There are a number of benefits to being an NPS MedicineWise voting member including:

• the right to nominate individuals to the Board
• voting rights at our annual general meeting (AGM)
• receiving outcomes papers from the Board meetings
• scope to raise issues for consideration by the Board
• opportunities to take part in formal NPS MedicineWise planning and strategic meetings
• opportunities to put forward representatives for NPS MedicineWise committees and advisory groups
• access to all our publications
• links on our website
• endorsement offers of specific or relevant programs and activities
• information about our activities
• access to a direct contact at NPS MedicineWise who can progress any requests and promote their needs
• the right to nominate individuals for honorary membership.

To become one of our voting members your organisation needs to be a legal entity that:

• is, or has members that are representative of quality use of medicines and medical tests stakeholders
• can demonstrate a commitment to quality use of medicines and medical tests through its objectives and/or actions
• supports the National Medicines Policy
• has confirmed ongoing honorary membership of NPS MedicineWise
• does not have a real or perceived conflict of interest with our objectives and activities.

As a member of NPS MedicineWise your organisation will have a responsibility to:

• include quality use of medicines in the organisation's documentation (e.g. strategic plan)
• engage with other partners to progress quality use of medicines and/or medical test issues
• nominate individuals for NPS MedicineWise advisory groups.

If your organisation is interested in becoming a member, please contact us. If you do not meet the criteria above, there are many other opportunities for us to work together.

The honorary membership category was introduced in 2011 to publicly recognise individuals with outstanding and long-term commitments to improving the quality use of medicines and medical tests, and who are not current employees or directors of NPS MedicineWise.

Every second year we invite our members, directors, advisory groups and staff to nominate suitable individuals as honorary members. The Board shortlists and appoints up to three individuals as honorary members each year. Honorary members are announced at the AGM usually held in November. Honorary membership is for life or until the person resigns their membership.

Contact us for more information about nominating individuals for honorary membership.

• Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
• The Australian Lung Foundation (ALF)
• Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH)
• Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC)
• Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
• National Asthma Council Australia (NAC)
• National Health and Medical Research Council
• National Heart Foundation of Australia
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
• The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
• The Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand
• Therapeutic Guidelines

• The Cochrane Collaboration
• The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• New Zealand Guidelines Group
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)