QUM Links

Link Categories

National Prescribing Service - the NPS website provides free access to all NPS publications, including clinical audits, case studies and aggregate results of completed case studies, along with access to printable patient education materials and other resources.
Australian Medicines Handbook - this handbook provides an excellent summary of useful information on currently registered medicines in Australia. The handbook is updated yearly and is an essential reference text for all prescribers!
The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (Monash Medical Centre) - provides reports of completed evidence-based medicine requests, consumer health information, a large number of links to evidence-based medicine and other health sites including Pubmed (free Medline), British Medical Journal, and the Australasian Cochrane Centre.
The Australasian Cochrane Centre - the Cochrane Collaboration is an international organisation that aims to enable well-informed decisions about healthcare by preparing and promoting systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions
The Australasian Cochrane Centre is one of a number of Cochrane centres established worldwide to co-ordinate the activities of the Cochrane Collaboration. The Centre is based in Melbourne as part of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research and is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Therapeutic Guidelines Group - the website of the TGG.
Drug approvals in Australia - useful information on drug approvals.
PBS co-payments & fees - effective 1 January 2009

New changes to S8 requirements- Schedule 8 Permit and Notification Requirements - 2009

· Australian Bureau of Statistics

· National Asthma Council Australia

· Department of Health and Ageing

· Department of Veterans' Affairs

· Doctor's Guide to the Internet

· DoctorConnect

· Flinders University School Medicine

· HealthInsite

· Phcris www.phcris.org.au

Government Information Sources

· Australian Bureau of Statistics

· Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

· Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

· Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

· Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA)

· Department of Veterans' Affairs - Veterans' MATES

· Medicare Australia

· PBS Schedule Online

· Therapeutic Goods Administration

· Department of Health and Ageing, Office of Rural Health
www.ruralhealth.gov.au

· Department of Human Services (Victoria)
www.dhs.vic.gov.au

· National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/

· National Health Priority Area - Asthma
www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/
Content/health-pq-asthma-index.htm

· National Public Health Partnership
www.nphp.gov.au

Facilitator Related

· Medicare Australia- information about HMR and RMMR claims per quarter- https://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/statistics/div_gen_prac.shtml (please choose "create report"> "1. Professional Attendance"> "A17 Domiciliary Medication Management Review (DMMR)"

· Department of Health and Ageing- information about HMR and RMMR- http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Medication+Management+Reviews

· Health Insite - www.healthinsite.gov.au

· Better Health - www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au

Legislation

· National Health Act

· SCALEplus (searchable databases of Federal and State legislation)

· National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Conditions of approval for approved pharmacists) Determination 2007

Consumer Related

· For Health Information

www.healthinsite.gov.au

www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au

· Consumers' Health Forum of Australia - www.chf.org.au