Quality Use of Medicines partners

Page contents: Consumer information | Partners nationally | Partners, state-based groups | Partners within the Department of Human Services

Consumer information

For consumer information about QUM please visit the National Prescribing Service website.

Partners nationally

See the links page for QUM organisations.

Partners, state-based groups

• Victorian Therapeutics Advisory Group (VicTAG)
• Victorian Drug Usage Evaluation Group

National Therapeutic Advisory Groups include:

• NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group (NSWTAG)
• Queensland Hospital Drug Advisory Committee
• South Australian Therapeutics Advisory Committee (SATAG)
• Tasmanian State-Wide Drug Committee
• Western Australian Therapeutic Advisory Group (WATAG)

Partners within the Department of Human Services

VMAC members collaborate on a range of QUM related initiatives, across the Department of Human Services, including:

• Pharmaceutical reforms program
  Includes information about the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) and Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC) guidelines.
• Drug and Poisons Unit
  Describes the drugs and poisons controls in Victoria.
• Quality and Safety Programs
  Includes Safer systems saving lives, Clinical risk management, Infection control, Victorian travelling fellowship program and Victorian Quality Council.
• Victorian Policy Advisory Committee on Clinical Practice and Technology (VPACT)
  Includes information on high cost drug funding processes.