Medicine award winners
May 25, 2012
LAST night the NPS recognised
star players in the Australian
medicines landscape in an awards
ceremony at the glittering National
Medicines Symposium (NMS) dinner.
The National MedicineWise
Awards are designed to celebrate
the high quality of work by companies
and individuals which both
assists and educates consumers
and health professionals.
Judges for the awards, according
to NPS, consisted of representatives
from across the health sector who
considered entries based on
impact, innovation and reach.
As part of the evenings
formalities the awards were
announced by Parliamentary
Secretary for Health and Ageing,
Catherine King and NPS CEO, Dr
Lynn Weekes.
“Consumers need to be at the
centre of all we do in building a
medicinewise community, and each
of the National MedicineWise
Award winners demonstrates one
way in which health outcomes can
be positively impacted through
quality use of medicines activity,”
said Weekes.
Taking home the award for
Education for health professionals
to build QUM skills - under
$100,000 was the BE ALERT AND
WORK TOGETHER for medicine
safety: DAA Incident Awareness
Toolkit; whilst the Building a
medicinewise community:
consumer programs award was
taken out by two joint winners: The
Northern Rivers Career Link Pharmacy
Program and the RedUSE (Reducing
Use of Sedatives) Program.
The Education for health
professionals to build QUM skills -
under $100,000 award went to the
Medicines Book for Aboriginal
Health Workers; and the Excellence
in labelling and packaging award
went to APHS Packaging:
Medication Compliance Sachet.
Meanwhile the Best e-health
resources award was taken by
Pharmacovigilance in pregnancy
using population-based linked
datasets; whilst the Best abstract
award went to Tracey-Lea Laba,
Jo-anne Brien and Stephen Jan,
University of Sydney and The
George Institute for Global Health.
The best student abstract was
awarded to Chee Kong Teo, Faculty
of Medicine, UNSW; and the Best
poster went to Rana Ahmed,
Jacqueline Borst, Yong Wei Cheng
and Parisa Aslani, University of
Sydney and University of Nottingham.
MEANWHILE the NPS National
Medicines Symposium will wrap up
this afternoon, with Weekes
expected to release the details of a
new national framework for
prescribing competencies - details
in Monday’s Pharmacy Daily.
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