SHPA Choosing Wisely
July 17, 2015
The Society of Hospital
Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)
has announced that it is the first
pharmacist member organisation to
join the Choosing Wisely Australia
initiative, coordinated by NPS
MedicineWise.
The partnership is intended
to support clinicians seeking to
improve the quality of health care.
SHPA said it will be focusing
on appropriate and high quality
evidence-based use of medicines
by reducing medical tests,
treatments and procedures of
proven low value.
NPS MedicineWise has published
on its website lists of low value
tests, treatments and procedures,
developed by five specialist medical
organisations, with the aim of
generating conversations between
clinicians and consumers about
what is necessary and appropriate.
SHPA federal president Professor
Michael Dooley will represent SHPA
on the Choosing Wisely Australia
Representative Panel.
Dooley said the SHPA will seek
input from members to develop
a series of evidence-based
statements focusing on the use
of medicines and the role of pharmacists in supporting the
quality use of medicines.
These statements will be released
in the second Choosing Wisely
launch, early in 2016.
“SHPA strongly supports
evidence-based decision making
so we are pleased to champion the
recommendations made through
Choosing Wisely Australia.
Dooley went on to say that
reinforcing the evidence and
improving the quality use of
medicines is the cornerstone of
pharmacy practice, particularly in
hospitals.
“Four of the recent
recommendations from the Royal
Australian College of General
Practitioners relate to the use of
medicines.
“This highlights the important
role for pharmacists in supporting
this initiative – in having the
conversations with patients and
with prescribers when evidence
does not support the use of a
medicine,” he concluded.
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