Posted : January 18, 2005
SADI and the Drug and Therapeutic Information Service (DATIS) have developed a strong working relationship with the result that all Divisions have now gained funding from the National Prescribing Service to run their Quality Use of Medicines program. This involves a partnership between Divisions and DATIS to provide academic detailing visits and presentation of case studies on topics developed by NPS (e.g. antibiotic use, asthma management, dyslipideamia etc) to GPs in their region.
SADI's QUM Coordinator operates as a conduit for a variety of NPS initiatives to Divisional facilitators and has developed strategic linkages involving DATIS, SADI and the State Department of Health in considering strategic directions for QUM in this State over the next few years.
The Domiciliary Medication Management Review program in SA continues to develop through the strong network of Divisional facilitators and the positive partnership between SADI and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (SA branch). All Divisions in SA have gained funding for a facilitator to promote DMMR in their regions. The SADI Coordinator provides new facilitators with orientation and has developed an email discussion list for SADI and Divisional facilitators to share information and solutions for issues that have arisen within Divisions. This is further supported by the bi-monthly facilitator meetings convened by SADI. The Coordinator is working closely with the Aged Care Development Officer in developing strategies which address the implementation of the new medication management items in residential aged care.
Quality Use of Medicines - Files | ||
| Title | Author | Downloads |
| City Views MMS | Lisa | View File |
| CQUM program | View File | |
| Home Medicine Review and Mental Health Initiative | View File | |
| QUM (DVA) forum | View File | |
| Qum conference 2004 | View File | |
| SA QUM forum Hypnotic DUE kit | View File | |
Quality Use of Medicines - Links | |
| Title | Location |
| Health Insurance Commission | http://www.hic.gov.au/ |
| National Prescribing Service | http://www.nps.org.au/ |
| National Medicines Policy | http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/Publishing.nsf/Content/National+Medicines+Policy-2 |
| MIMS | http://www.mims.com.au/ |
| Therapeutic Goods Administration | http://www.tga.gov.au |
| Pharmacy Guild of Australia | http://www.guild.org.au |
| Home Medicines Review (HMR) Guidelines | http://www.health.gov.au/epc/dmmr.htm |