WITH changes of medicine names to align with international spellings now impacting on a number of locally dispensed products, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has released educational posters and leaflets to help healthcare professionals communicate with their patients.
Three separate kits have been prepared for pharmacists (example of a poster pictured), doctors and nurses.
The TGA urges caution and care when prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines to make sure that the right product is selected.
The poster sets are designed to help raise public awareness of the changes, which will be helpful especially for travellers, as well as healthcare professionals who have trained overseas or people seeking information about their therapies online.
Name changes of this type have been undertaken by other countries such as United Kingdom in 2003 and New Zealand in 2008.
Posters are prepared in A3 and A4 formats, cards with and without writing space and pdfs or jpgs in both portrait and landscape formats for tablet displays.
Visit tga.gov.au to access the suite of support materials.
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