# \[e-drug\] Quality use of Medicines in Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [June 8, 2002, 9:35am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-quality-use-of-medicines-in-australia/14499 "2002-06-08T09:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lroughead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@lroughead](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/lroughead)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 9:35am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-quality-use-of-medicines-in-australia/14499/1 "2002-06-08T09:35:29Z")
\ Sender: owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org Precedence: bulk E-drug: Quality use of Medicines in Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear All, Australia has just revised its policy documents for Quality Use of Medicines (Rational Drug Use). The new document is called: The National Strategy for Quality Use of Medicines. There are three versions of the document: a brochure; an executive summary and the full document. We have also produced: Quality Use of Medicines: Statement of Priorities and Strategic Action Plan 2001 - 2003. Copies of all these documents are available on the web at: [http://www.health.gov.au/hbd/qum/natstrat.htm](http://www.health.gov.au/hbd/qum/natstrat.htm) Another document that may be of interest to some of you is: Quality Use of Medicines - A Decade of Research, Development & Service Activity 1991-2001 It can be downloaded from the web at: [http://www.health.gov.au/pbs/pubs/qumresearch.htm](http://www.health.gov.au/pbs/pubs/qumresearch.htm) We continue to maintain the Quality Use of Medicines Map, which is a database of Australian Quality Use of Medicines initiatives. The database now contains over 980 quality use of medicines projects which have been undertaken in Australia in the last 10 years. It has quick and detailed search capacity. Visit: www.qummap.health.gov.au There is also now a website for the National Medicines Policy [http://www.health.gov.au/pbs/natmedpol.htm](http://www.health.gov.au/pbs/natmedpol.htm) Best wishes Libby Roughead School of Pharmaceutical, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences University of South Australia North Terrace Adelaide 5000 South Australia Australia Ph +61 8 8302 2179 Fax + 61 8 8302 2389 E-mail: libby.roughead@unisa.edu.au -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@usa.healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@usa.healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html](http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html)