Historical Success
In the period between 1998 to 2004, 90% of all GPs were actively involved in one or more educational activities run by the NPS, while approximately sixty per cent of GPs and pharmacists rated the NPS' printed educational materials as good or very good.
NPS activities have generated substantial financial savings to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, with the organisation claiming that its information and education campaigns have reduced unnecessary prescriptions and improved prescribing decisions within the medical community. Various health professionals argue that, despite potential conflicts between cost-saving and the organisation's Quality Use of Medicines mandate, the NPS will continue to improve on the current PBS system.
The NPS has also developed programs and resources to help consumers and health practitioners to discuss health issues and improve the QUM within Australia.
Read more about this topic: National Prescribing Service
Famous quotes containing the words historical and/or success:
“What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.”
—Policy statement, 1944, of the Youth League of the African National Congress. pt. 2, ch. 4, Fatima Meer, Higher than Hope (1988)