THE Commonwealth Government's Medical Research Future Fund recently invested $1.5m into investigating how pharmacists can work with other healthcare professionals to implement the new Department of Health and Aged Care Guiding Principles for Medication Management in Residential Aged Care Facilities.
The project, which is being led by the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS) based at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is called Maximising Embedded Pharmacists in aGed cAre Medication Advisory Committees (MEGA-MAC).
It will involve pharmacists working as system-level knowledge brokers to optimise the structure and function of local medication advisory committees (MACs), and implementation of an innovative national quality improvement collaborative.
Project Lead and CMUS Director Professor Simon Bell said the MEGA-MAC will act as a real-time clinical network to support embedded pharmacists and local medication advisory committees to deliver, monitor and evaluate quality improvement initiatives.
"Our project will support residential aged care facilities to implement the guiding principles and provide a framework for embedded pharmacists to share best practice and strategies between medication advisory committees across Australia," explained Bell.
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