Pharmacy Daily | Medicine award winners

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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