NPS MedicineWise winners
May 24, 2016
NPS MedicineWise winners
winners of the
biennial National
MedicineWise
Awards have been
announced as
part of the ninth
National Medicines
Symposium last
week in Canberra.
Initiatives
honoured spanned
topics from
smoking cessation
to symptoms
of dementia,
endometriosis,
men’s health,
chronic respiratory
conditions, nondrug
interventions
and medicine use improvement
activities, NPS MedicineWise said.
NPS ceo Dr Lynn Weekes thanked
the entrants and winners for their
efforts in improving the Australian
healthcare landscape.
“It is a privilege to recognise these
excellent contributions to quality
use of medicines, medical tests and
health technologies,” Weekes said.
“The recipients of the 2016
National Medicinewise Awards
have demonstrated outstanding
work to improve health outcomes
for Australians.
“It is inspiring to see the awards
cover such diverse
projects that
incorporate men’s
health, women’s
health, chronic
disease, indigenous
health, medicines
in dementia and
non-medicine
interventions.”
SHPA Federal
Councillor Lisa
Pont was the winner of
the ‘Excellence in
health professional
programs:
<$100,000 budget’
category, in
recognition of her
leadership of the De-Prescribing
Project Team from the Australian
Institute of Health Innovation
at Macquarie University in the
project Managing the behavioural
and psychological symptoms of
dementia in residential aged care.
Other winning projects included
the Royal Australian College of
General Practitioners’ Handbook
of Non-Drug Interventions (HANDI)
which won for Excellence in
e-health resources, while Millie
Nakatsuka from Rockhampton Base
Hospital won the People’s Choice
poster award.
About 350 people attended the
two-day Symposium, with abstracts
from key presentations now online
at www.nps.org.au/nms2016.
The next National Medicines
Symposium is scheduled to be held
in 2018.
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